EtherExpress PRO/100 Intelligent Server Adapter with i960(R) proces sor

[Osma Ahvenlampi]

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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Osma Ahvenlampi <oa@spray.fi>