[vortex] Tornado initialization

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Fernando Barreto wrote:

> 	I study science computing at Federal University of Santa Catarina
> - Brazil. I'm researching in a project to use a NIC 3Com 3c95c (Tornado)
> in a high speed comunication. So, I'm having some problens to discover
> what part of your code (3c95x.c) from kernel 2.4.18 is important for
> the tornado's initialization. Could you inform to us what is the essential
> part of code that sets the NIC to work?

Hardware initialization is done in vortex_up() mainly. But
re-initialization after error is in vortex_error() or in
vortex_tx_timeout() and media-related in vortex_timer().

I suggest that you get the free documentation from 3Com's site. I find it 
quite well written.

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Bogdan Costescu

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