Davicom 9102[A] support from *tulip* Driver ?
John Vickers
John.Vickers@PaceMicro.com
Thu Nov 11 13:53:13 1999
Donald Becker wrote:
>
> The version in
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/index.html
> ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/
Got it. Thankyou.
> The Davicom driver works around bugs specific to (early?) versions of their
> chip.
Right.
> Apparently one of them is corrupted data transfers: the driver does an
> expensive CRC check on the first 40,000 Rx packets. If one is bad, it
> continues to use the CRC check.
You don't happen to know any other good bugs with this chip ?
> If this problem remains with current chips,
> I would highly recommend using the Davicom driver.
Indeed. Or use another chip. I was investigating the possibility
of designing the thing into a non-PC...
Regards,
John.