>>>>> On Fri, 01 Dec 95 13:07:51 +0100, Fred Roy <froy@gr.osf.org> said:
Fred> Two questions:
Fred> - DE205-AB is an optional Ethernet board for AXPpci 33
Fred> motherboard, tested on either OSF/1 & NT. Is it supported by
Fred> current Linux/Alpha ?
I don't know. However, at the beginning of the source of
drivers/net/ewrk3.c it says:
This driver is written for the Digital Equipment Corporation series
of EtherWORKS ethernet cards:
DE203 Turbo (BNC)
DE204 Turbo (TP)
DE205 Turbo (TP BNC)
The driver has been tested on a relatively busy network using the DE205
card and benchmarked with 'ttcp': it transferred 16M of data at 975kB/s
(7.8Mb/s) to a DECstation 5000/200.
The author may be reached as davies@wanton.lkg.dec.com or Digital
Equipment Corporation, 550 King Street, Littleton MA 01460.
So the only question is whether this driver is 64 bit clean. If
somebody knows, please let me know so I can update the FAQ.
Fred> - In the FAQ, section 2.1, "Ethernet drivers" item: what
Fred> "depca" stands for ?
>From drivers/net/depca.c:
This driver is written for the Digital Equipment Corporation series
of DEPCA and EtherWORKS ethernet cards:
DEPCA (the original)
DE100
DE101
DE200 Turbo
DE201 Turbo
DE202 Turbo (TP BNC)
DE210
DE422 (EISA)
The driver has been tested on DE100, DE200 and DE202 cards in a
relatively busy network. The DE422 has been tested a little.
This driver will NOT work for the DE203, DE204 and DE205 series of
cards, since they have a new custom ASIC in place of the AMD LANCE
chip. See the 'ewrk3.c' driver in the Linux source tree for running
those cards.
--david