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    SubjectRe: EtherExpress PRO/100 Intelligent Server Adapter with i960(R) proces sor
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    Jeffrey Hundstad <jeffrey.hundstad@mankato.msus.edu> writes:
    > My brand-spank'n-new "EtherExpress PRO/100 Intelligent Server Adapter
    > with i960(R) processor" showed up today and I instlled it. It was
    > undetected by the eepro100.c:v1.06 10/16/98 driver that comes with
    > linux-2.1.131. Is there a driver that does work with this card? Or
    > am I doing something wrong?

    Extracting from a web page. See especially point 3.
    <URL:http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/index.html#PCI>

    Unsupported boards

    Linux now supports almost every current-production PCI Fast and
    Gigabit Ethernet chip!

    The exceptions are generally unique boards based on supported chips:

    - Boards using the Digital Tulip chip must have a correct media table
    in the EEPROM. (Some common boards do have explicit driver support.)
    - There is no plan to support the obsolete Intel EtherExpressPro 100A,
    which hasn't been produced in years.
    - No board with an on-board processor is supported, because these
    invariably have a proprietary/undocumented interface. (EEPro Server
    and Matrox multiport PCI switch cards fall into this category.)
    - The Essential Communications Gigabit Ethernet board is not yet
    supported.
    - The Alteon Gigabit Ethernet chip is not supported because of lack of
    programming information from Alteon. Similarly the 3Com 3c985
    - Gigabit Ethernet board is not yet supported.
    - The new Intel Gigabit Ethernet board is not supported because of
    lack of programming information from Intel.
    - The announced (but not yet available) Sun "GEM" Gigabit Ethernet
    chip is not yet supported.

    And on the eepro100 driver home page, at
    <URL:http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html>

    Linux and the Intel EtherExpress Pro 100

    This page contains information on using Linux with the Intel PCI
    EtherExpress Pro100B board, Pro100+, and other PCI boards using the
    i82557 or i82558 chip.

    "i960(R) Processor" quite obviously is not i82557 or i82558. Pay
    attention.

    --
    Gravity brings me down.
    Osma Ahvenlampi <oa@spray.fi>


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