Re: support for smc9432tx ???

Kelly Setzer (setzer@telalink.net)
Fri, 1 Aug 97 12:43:02 -0500

>
> Is anyone working on support for the new SMC EtherPower II 10/100
>(9432tx). I just got a computer from gateway and expected the previous
>version of the card and now I have no support and a new server I can't
>attach to the network. If it's in the devel kernel please tell me, I'm
>only working w/ 2.0.x kernels here.
>

Donald Becker has written a driver for it:

http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/epic100.html

We added one of these in our secondary DNS server and two in our primary
DNS server. They've been working extremely well under 2.0.31-pre2.
These cards do support full-duplex mode, but I have not had much luck
with it performance-wise.

Kelly

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