Ambicom amb8100 cardbus 10/100 ethernet

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Charles Galpin wrote:

> It looks like I made the (increasingly difficult  to make) mistake of buying 
> an unsupported ethernet card, the
> 
> Ambicom amb8100 cardbus 10/100 ethernet
> 
> Say it isn't so! It uses the DEC21143, although I called Ambicon tech 
> support and they are supprised that other DOS software that supports this 
> chipset works on their card!

The Tulip driver works with *some* 21143 CardBus cards.
It's a card-by-card support issue -- I cannot predict if an arbitrary card
will work.

> Anyway, they say they are working on a Linux driver, but it's low on their 
> priority list - they are getting calls about Linux support though:) When 
> asked if they were working with Linux developers, they said no, because they 
> have some proprietary info or something they don't want to share.

What they likely mean is "we don't want people to know what a sleazy design
we used"...

> With that said, I see there is a tulip module out there. Can this be used 
> with card services? If so, how? I have Redhat 5.1, kernel 2.0.35, 
> pcmcia-cs-3.0.0  I plan on upgrading to pcmcia-cs-3.0.6

Read
   http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/pcmcia/index.html

Basically
   Get tulip.c v0.90
   Compile it using the cardbus options ('tail tulip.c') to get tulip_cb.o
   Put the correct entry in /etc/pcmcia/config.opt

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