From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 03:47:44 -0800 Received: from mx.mips.com ([206.31.31.226]:56036 "EHLO mx.mips.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 03:47:39 -0800 Received: from newman.mips.com (ns-dmz [206.31.31.225]) by mx.mips.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id DAA04974; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 03:47:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from copfs01.mips.com (copfs01 [192.168.205.101]) by newman.mips.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id DAA08386; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 03:47:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mips.com (copsun17 [192.168.205.27]) by copfs01.mips.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA10044; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:47:26 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3A7163CE.8EDE5CF7@mips.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:47:26 +0100 From: Carsten Langgaard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kevin D. Kissell" CC: Ralf Baechle , Michael Shmulevich , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: MIPS/linux compatible PCI network cards References: <3A70A356.F3CA71F1@jungo.com> <20010125141632.B2311@bacchus.dhis.org> <3A712A52.FAC574F1@mips.com> <019b01c0878d$8ac9e6c0$0deca8c0@Ulysses> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing "Kevin D. Kissell" wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > > > I would like to ask if someone knows some more or less widely > available > > > > PCI network card that is compatible with MIPS/Linux. > > > > > > > > I have heard of Tulip and AMD's PCnet. I wonder if you heard of > others. > > > > > > These all have already been used with Linux/MIPS. I don't have any > reports > > > on the current status of these drivers. If they don't work they should > > > be reasonably easy to fix. > > > > The tulip driver worked fine at least in the past. The AMD PCnet driver > works > > just fine, we are using it on our reference boards. > > Note, however, that the Tulip driver that was part of the > standard 2.2/2.3 repository at oss.sgi.com was both > downrev with regard to the author's own web site and > subobtimal if not outright buggy in it's cache management. > The AMD PCnet driver as we found it was clean and efficient > but had no MIPS cache hooks. I had to put those in. > So unless Ralf or someone at SGI that the versions > on oss.sgi.com are the versions I cleaned up for MIPS, > I would recommend pulling them off the MIPS site. > The AMD PCnet driver should be OK in the CVS from oss.sgi.com > > Regards, > > Kevin K. -- _ _ ____ ___ Carsten Langgaard Mailto:carstenl@mips.com |\ /|||___)(___ MIPS Denmark Direct: +45 4486 5527 | \/ ||| ____) Lautrupvang 4B Switch: +45 4486 5555 TECHNOLOGIES 2750 Ballerup Fax...: +45 4486 5556 Denmark http://www.mips.com