[ECOS] PCI Ethernet card

Nick Garnett nickg@ecoscentric.com
Sat Aug 2 12:01:00 GMT 2003


"Michael Anburaj" <embeddedeng@hotmail.com> writes:

> Hi All,
> 
> Thanks all for sharing info.
> 
> >for one of the commodity PCI ethernet chipsets. That would be a useful
> 
> Can you point me to a particular commodity PCI Ethernet chipset,
> which’s good & well documented & cards based on them affordable :-)

Not offhand. I'm not sure what gets put into cheap ethernet cards
these days. I know someone is already doing a RealTek driver. 

> (or I could go for a i82559 based card). Then I would certainly work
> on it & contribute it back.

Given you appear to be able to pick up 82559 cards cheaply in the US,
then that may be the best way to go. 

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Nick Garnett                    eCos Kernel Architect
http://www.ecoscentric.com      The eCos and RedBoot experts


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