Re: [parisc-linux] Dual NICs on 9000/715, anyone?

[Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 10:16:11PM -0600, Shane G. Brodie wrote:
> Slightly off topic:  I've been fighting with a 715/80 with an EISA 10/100 VG
> AnyLan card in it for the last 2 weeks.  I can not get the network to come
> up.

If it's trying to use DMA, it won't work.

> I have a whole series of issues to resolve unrelated to the network
> hardware, but that's another long story ... (the old SCSI CD-ROM doesn't
> like CD-RW ... don't have spare CD-R ... disc 2 of my downloaded set is
> unreadable - how I wish the MD5 checksums were up-to-date ...  I could set

can you clarify which MD5 csums are stale?
Post the URL on this list and likely someone can fix it.

> up dial-up (eeek!) but ...
> 
> I don't have have an EtherTwist transceiver for the built-in (and don't know
> if it'll work anyway) - can anyone advise me whether or not the the built-in
> 10-Base-2 Ethernet NIC will work using a AUI-10MB Ethernet transceiver
> connected to a Linksys DSL 10/100 router?

The 715 built-in (LASI "apricot", uses lasi_82596 driver) works fine.
I wouldn't expect any compatibility problems with Linksys router.

grant