Davicom 9102[A] support from *tulip* Driver ?

[John Vickers]

Donald Becker wrote:
> 
> The version in
>    http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/index.html
>    ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/

Got it.  Thankyou.

> The Davicom driver works around bugs specific to (early?) versions of their
> chip.  

Right.

> Apparently one of them is corrupted data transfers: the driver does an
> expensive CRC check on the first 40,000 Rx packets.  If one is bad, it
> continues to use the CRC check.

You don't happen to know any other good bugs with this chip ?

> If this problem remains with current chips,
> I would highly recommend using the Davicom driver.

Indeed.  Or use another chip.  I was investigating the possibility
of designing the thing into a non-PC...

Regards,

John.