[tulip] Re: McQullian hacked 0.91g-ppc tulip.c driver for AN985 chipset -- WAS: Linksys LNE100TX Version 4.1

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Bryan -TheBS- Smith wrote:

> Re: Linksys LNE100TX Version 4.1 hits the shelves ... any comments? <- Hacked 0.91g-ppc driver
>     Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 17).
>       Vendor id=1317. Device id=985.

That's a Centaur/P.  (The PCI version.  The CardBus Centaur/C is 0x1985.)

It should be detected by and work with the v92 driver, although there are a
few tweaks in the latest test version.

> Although I definately want to get to playing with your Netdriver
> 2.0 setup, for now, I am using Jim McQuillan's
> (mailto:jam@McQuil.com) hacked 0.91g-ppc driver.  He merged some
> blocks from the existing AN981 section code with some others and it
> works fine for me.  I guess it was just an identification issue?

No!  It's more than just an identification issue.  The Comet/Centaur chip
isn't exactly like other tulip-like chips.  (Not that any of them are like
the others.)


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