On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Chris Brown wrote: > I've got a bunch of PCI Ethernet adapters lying around, several > brands like Link-SYS etc. that I'd like to use with Linux. > > They all have the LSI "Winbond W89C940F" on them. I've seen some > reference to them as being "Novell NE2000 Compatible" but they > don't seem to work with that driver and they don't use NE2000 > I/O addresses. The HOW-2's don't seem to list this chip.
I have a couple of those at home. They work fine. They used to give problems (wrongly detected as ne1000.) There is a patch for that at Donald Becker's site (Donald wrote a lote of the NIC drivers for linux and is mentioned in the Ethernet-HOWTO.) Since some late 20's or early 30's 2.0 kernel versions, the debianized kernel-source package already contains patches that fix problems with detection of (amongst other models) "winbond" pci ne2k's. >From the Ethernet-HOWTO: /quote/ 3.4 Problems with NE1000 / NE2000 cards (and clones) Problem: PCI NE2000 clone card is not detected at boot with v2.0.x. Reason: The ne.c driver up to v2.0.30 only knows about the PCI ID number of RealTek 8029 based clone cards. Since then, Winbond and Compex have also released PCI NE2000 clone cards, with different PCI ID numbers, and hence the driver doesn't detect them. Solution: The easiest solution is to upgrade to a v2.0.31 version of the linux kernel. It knows the ID numbers of about five different NE2000-PCI chips, and will detect them automatically at boot or at module loading time. Alternatively, after booting, you can get the I/O address (and interrupt) that the card will use from a ``cat /proc/pci''. Say for example it reports IRQ 9 and I/O at 0xffe0, then at the LILO boot prompt you can add ether=9,0xffe0,eth0 which will point the driver right at your card and avoid the PCI based probing altogether. (Future v2.1+ kernels will know about the PCI IDs of Winbond and Compex NE2000 clones as well, so this won't be necessary then.) /etuoq/ Maybe some of the other things told there are worth reading too. Just take the debian kernel-source-2.0.32 package and compile a kernel to see if it works. It probably does, otherwise have a look at Donald Becker's site: http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
