i82559 Chipset (?)

Thu May 6 17:56:43 1999

: On Thu, 6 May 1999, Jason M . Felice wrote:
:
: > We have some cards which were sold to us as Intel PRO/100+ cards
(the online
: > wholesaler we purchase from frequently drops important words from
the name of
: > products :(, we incorrectly figured them to be Intel EtherExpress
cards. ).
: >
: > They have a chip labelled GD82559, which the driver doesn't support,
it seems
: > to support 82555, 82557, 82558.
:
: The driver should "just work" with the '559.  It's not supposed to be
: substantially different than the '558.  (I don't have a datasheet
: or sample card to confirm this statement.)
:
: Note: The '555 is a transceiver.  It's integrated onto the '558 and
'559
: chip.  Most '557 boards used the NatSemi DP83840 rather than Intel's
part,
: since the '840 was the only _working_ MII transceiver in the early
days.

I seems to just work for me. I have an SMP dual PII 300, Tyan 1832DL
box.

:
: >  I assume this means:
: > 1) it isn't a terrible deal to make the driver support it
: > 4) It just _might_ work if I just enabled the driver to detect it ;)
:
: I believe this to be the case.
:
: > The exact name of the card is an Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter.
:
: In some circles "Management" means mostly Wake-On-LAN to back up the
machine
: at night.

It does have Wake-On-LAN. I have not connected it or enabled it in the
BIOS though.

:
: > With some advice, I'm willing to do all the work involved; although
I hope it
: > will not be so involved as to obtain specs from Intel.
:
: What does /proc/pci report for the PCI Vendor and Device ID?  I had
thought
: that it was the same as the '557 and '558.

  Bus  0, device  17, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: Intel 82557 (rev 8).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 17.  Master
Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfebfd000 [0xfebfd000].
      I/O at 0xef00 [0xef01].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfea00000 [0xfea00000].

:
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: USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information
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:

Hope this helps,
   Jason Schanuel