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pc386/i386ex ne2000 drivers

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

>    Date:        Fri, 06 Aug 1999 09:50:54 -0700
>    From: "erik.ivanenko" <erik.ivanenko at utoronto.ca>
>
>    I've been trying to get the ne2000 driver from the pc386 distribution to
>    work on the ACER board.  I know that the ne2000 driver from the i386ex
>    bsp works with the ne2000 I have, so I suppose that is the driver I
>    should be using....
>
>    However, there are many differences between the two, some are quite
>    substantive.  Can someone tell me why the driver was changed so much?
>    Perhaps I should be trying to get the pc386 driver working properly
>    instead?
>
> I don't see an ne2000 driver in the i386ex BSP in the 19990709
> snapshot.  I see an 82596 driver, which uses DMA.  The ne2000 is based
> on the 8390, and does not support DMA.  Naturally the two drivers are
> very different.  So I think at least one of us doesn't understand
> something.
>
> Ian

  My apologies.  I've been using an older version of ne2k.c for so long that
I assumed it went with the distribution.

The ne2k driver I use is quite old.  It did originally appear with the pc386
BSP.  I altered it slightly so that bootp would work properly.  The latest
incarnation of the driver does not work at all on my card:

PCM 3660 PC104 version.  Chipset = RTL8010AS

It does not even get the ethernet address from the board correctly... bootpc
reports that it is using a hw address of FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.

There were quite a few changes to the code.  Does anyone recall what bugs were
being addressed by the changes?

I wish I could tell you what version I use, but it was back when there was
only a "network" subdirectory.  I submitted a patch to make ne2k work with
bootp.  That is that last change I was aware of,  since my i386ex BSP sucked
up and froze that particular incarnation of the ne2k.c code.



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