From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 03:49:33 -0800 Received: from mx.mips.com ([206.31.31.226]:57316 "EHLO mx.mips.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 03:49:26 -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 DAA04990; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 03:49:22 -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 DAA08413; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 03:49:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mips.com (copsun17 [192.168.205.27]) by copfs01.mips.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA10209; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:49:13 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3A716439.DE576416@mips.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:49:13 +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" , 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> <3A7163CE.8EDE5CF7@mips.com> 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 Carsten Langgaard wrote: > "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 At least in the 2.4.0 version. > > > > > 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 -- _ _ ____ ___ 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