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Anyone use a 3c597?

parisc-linux Marc Zyngier 1 participant 1 message Dec 2, 2006 1 message not in the archive

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"Kurt" == Kurt Fitzner <[email protected]> writes:

Kurt,

Kurt> I am looking to pick up an EISA ethernet card. I've found a Kurt> 3c597 for fairly cheap, but upon searching I noticed a couple of Kurt> notes on the mailing list back in 2002/2003 that mentioned Kurt> issues with this driver. Does anyone right now have this card Kurt> working, and if not, does anyone have any suggestions for Kurt> something EISA?

3c592/3c597 won't work on HPPA because we lack DMA support on the EISA bus (no documentation). Your best bet is with a pure PIO card. I had great success with a 3c579 (EISA version of the 3c509) on a C100.

It's only a 10Mbit/s, though.

Regards,

	M.
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