Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:22:15 -0600 (EST) | From | Jeffrey Hundstad <> | Subject | Re: Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 Server Adapter |
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On 4 Mar, Marek Habersack wrote: > > Hi, > Does anyone have working drivers for the device mentioned in Subject: > (Vendor ID: 8086, Device ID: 5201)? It is supposed to be compatible with the > EEPRO/100 adapter, but the kernel driver doesn't seem to recognize it. > Who shall I contact regarding the driver? > > thanks in advance, > marek >
I did this inquery back in 11 Dec 1998.... here was the best response.
From: Osma Ahvenlampi <oa@spray.fi> Subject: Re: EtherExpress PRO/100 Intelligent Server Adapter with i960(R) proces sor Date: 11 Dec 1998 10:19:40 +0200 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-eepro100@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov, becker@CESDIS.usra.edu To: Jeffrey Hundstad <jeffrey.hundstad@mankato.msus.edu>
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.
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