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Re: RealTek 8139 driver?
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at ecoscentric dot com>
- To: Chris Paulson-Ellis <kelsall at dsl dot pipex dot com>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>,Kevin Hilman <khilman at equator dot com>
- Date: 14 Aug 2002 15:43:11 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] RealTek 8139 driver?
- References: <r23cthrvnu.fsf@equator.com> <017201c243d9$e122e580$0264a8c0@gloria>
On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 15:30, Chris Paulson-Ellis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You can use the NS_DP83902A driver, which the RTL8139AS emulates
> sufficiently closely for it to work.
>
> Note that you need a card level driver to do the reset, MAC address reading
> & for the NETDEVTAB_ENTRY. For my ISA card based on the RTL8139AS, I rolled
> my own based on one of the existing card drivers which use the NS_DP83902A
> driver.
>
> Note that if you are on an x86 platform, you will find some endian issues in
> the MAC address handling of the NS_DP83902A driver. If anyone wants the
> fixes for this and/or my RTL8139AS ISA card driver, I could post them.
>
Yes, please do so. At least they'll then be archived.
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