[ECOS] RealTek 8139 driver?

Gary Thomas gthomas@ecoscentric.com
Wed Aug 14 16:44:00 GMT 2002


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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