Re: 8390 based net cards on AXP

Michael Schwingen (m.schwingen@stochastik.rwth-aachen.de)
Mon, 2 Oct 1995 16:16:37 +0100 (MET)

> Just a short note to let you all know that all 8390 net cards *should*
> work with (the upcoming) 1.3.31 out of the box on the Alpha. This
> includes the following cards:
>
> Western Digital (aka SMC Elite) wd80x3
> SMC Ultra
> SMC EtherEZ
> 3Com 3c503, 3c503/16
> ne1000 and ne2000 (already worked)
> Cabletron e2100
> Hewlett Packard PC Lan (model 27245, uses hp.c)
> Hewlett Packard PC Lan+ (model 27247 or 27252A, uses hp-plus.c)
> Ansel AC3200 EISA card.

I have been using an old NE2000 clone with 1.3.28 on alpha - so far no problems
with telnet and ftp. I did no thorough testing because there were other, more
important things to fix (I recompiled nearly everything with gcc 2.7.0 and
david's new lib 35.2 since neither the versions from blade nor the ones from
grocne seemd to work with 1.3.28 - now the system seems to work stable).

BTW: GNU sed 2.05 failed with a memory fault when running configure from the
GNU textutils ... sed 1.18 works fine.

Has the SCSI tape driver been fixed since 1.3.28? In that version, it needed
defines which were in the asm-i386 includes, but *not* in the alpha ones.

cu
Michael

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Michael Schwingen                          <michaels@stochastik.rwth-aachen.de>
Institut fuer Statistik und Wirtschaftsmathematik, | In the beginning there was
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