[tulip] Tulip and PowerPC endian issue?

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Fri Jan 31 15:48:02 2003


On 31 Jan 2003, Jim Rowe wrote:

> >   I have gone back 
> > to using an NE2000 card.  Others have reported on this list of failure with 
> > this card.
> 
> Is this NE2000 card you went back to a CardBus card (32-bit)? Is it
> working properly?

All of the NE2000 card I know of are PCMCIA 16 bit (ISA-like) cards.
That means no bus-mastering and slow timing, thus much simpler
operation.

There could be a CardBus NE2000 out there, but I doubt it.  I usually
get complaints about driver support the day after a new device is
available. 

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