Databook on Lite-On PNIC-II

[Christopher Smith]

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On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 01:40:41PM -0400, Donald Becker wrote:
> The reason the 98715 and PNIC-II datasheets are similar is because of
> documentation history, not design commonality.  The PNIC-II didn't have a
> real datasheet, just as the PNIC was pretty much only difference notes.
> When the design was transferred to Macronix they had to come up with
> to-standards documentation for the chip.  So they wrote the datasheet by
> starting from the 98715A document, since both were 21143 work-alikes.
> 
> So the chips are not the same, they were not even from the same design
> team.  Only the documentation is common.  We can expect the next chip to
> have the best of both designs.

Does this mean someone can get patches in to the kernel which will
make the tulip driver work with my Linksys card?

- --Chris


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