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Subject:    Experimental NE3200 driver, fourth release
From:       Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <rask () sygehus ! dk>
Date:       2003-04-21 17:31:43
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The fourth release of my experimental NE3200 driver is ready for download:
http://users.cybercity.dk/~ccc94453/linux/ne3200/0.04/ne3200-0.04.tar.gz

It is supposed to work with Novell NE3200 boards as well as clones:

Eagle Technologies NE3200 (which is what I have)
Microdyne NE3200
Anthem NE3200
Intel EtherExpress/32

Possibly compatible boards:
Compaq NE3200

Incompatible boards:
Intel EtherExpress/32 Flash (completely different from the EtherExpress/32)


Noteworthy changes since release 0.03:

ne3200:
Multiple boards are now supported.

82586:
Faster RX buffer handling. The result is a 10% higher transfer rate.


Known problems and quirks:
I get messages about lost interrupts and "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7".
I'm assuming that they are caused by hardware problems.


Compiling the driver:
The supplied "Makefile-local" is set up for building the driver outside of
the kernel tree. It needs "i82586.h" to be a link to the
"drivers/net/i82586.h" file of your linux source tree. It needs "include" to
be a link to the "include" directory of your linux build tree. E.g.

$ ln -s /your/linux/source/tree/drivers/net/i82586.h i82586.h
$ ln -s /uour/linux/build/tree/include include
$ make -f Makefile-local

You should then be able to load the resulting modules 82586.o and ne3200.o.

Prebuilt firmware is included because building the firmware requires your
binutils to be able to assemble i80186 code.


I can be contacted by email: rask@ne3200.lambertsen.cx. Reports of success
or failure with this driver are most welcome. I'm also interested in board
details such as which Ethernet connectors are present (RJ45/BNC/AUI) and
details about the chips on the board. For example the clock speeds of the
i80186, i82355 and i82586, the oscilator frequencies and the RAM access time.


Regards,
Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
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