PNIC LC82C169-9902

[Shawn Anderson]

Donald Becker wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Shawn Anderson wrote:
> > > Donald Becker wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Shawn Anderson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >   I am having troubles getting my asante 10/100 ethernet card to see my
> > > > > other linux box. And am hoping someone could help me out.  I insmod the
> > > > > tulip driver, start eth0 and try to telnet or ping etc... and I get no
> > > > > network activity at all.
> > > > ...
> > > > > Sep 11 03:45:26 space kernel: tulip.c:v0.91g 7/16/99
> > > > > becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> > > > > Sep 11 03:45:26 space kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0x400,
> > > > > 00:00:B4:94:ED:99, IRQ 25.
> > > >
> > > > That's an unusual I/O addrss and IRQ.  What type of machine are you using?
> > > Its a PowerPC box (Performa 6400/180)
> 
> That's the problem.
> The pre-0.91j Tulip drivers work on the PowerPC, but used the descriptor
> byte-swapping feature of the Tulip so that the driver wouldn't need to byte
> swap on the PPC.  (It still must in the setup, but not during operation.)
> 
> But the most of the Tulip clones, including the PNIC, didn't both to
> implement the byte-swap feature.
> 
> I used to advise just buying a real Tulip board.  But I decided that I had
> spent way too much answering "bug" reports, and it was only going to get
> worse with the increasing number of clone chips.  So the v0.91j and later
> drivers have explicit byte swapping.
> 
> Get the new driver from
>   http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/index.html
>   ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/
> 
> You *must* get the new support files (k_compat.h pci-netif.[ch]) as well!

thank you, It is working like a charm now!.

sa,