patch-1.3.87 linux/drivers/net/README.3c505

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• Date: Fri Apr 12 09:41:58 1996
• Orig file: v1.3.86/linux/drivers/net/README.3c505
• Orig date: Wed Apr 3 16:06:55 1996

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-The address and IRQ used by the 3c505 driver can be configured at boot
-time by typing 'ether=eth0,15,0x300' (replace IRQ and base address with
-ones that tell how your adapter is jumpered). The driver does not yet
-use DMA.
-
-If no base address is given at the boot time, the driver will look for
-a 3c505 adapter at addresses 0x300, 0x280 and 0x310 in this order,
-possibly messing up any other hardware residing in these addresses.
-If a base address is given, it will be verified.
-
-The driver has two compile-time settings in the CONFIG file:
-ELP_NEED_HARD_RESET
- Some DOS drivers seem to get the adapter to some irrecoverable state
- if the machine is "warm booted" from DOS to Linux. If you experience
- problems when warm booting, but "cold boot" works, #defining this
- to 1 may help. As of 3c505.c v0.8 the driver should be able to find
- out whether of not this is needed, but I'm not completely sure.
-ELP_DEBUG
- The driver debug level.  It's probably best to leave it at 0 most of the time.
- If you are having trouble, setting it to 1 may give you more information.
- Any higher setting is too verbose for most purposes.
-
-Known problems:
- The 3c505 is a slow card, mostly because of the way it talks to the host.
- Don't expect any great performance from it.
-
- I am seeing periodic "transmit timed out" and "timeout waiting for PCB
- acknowledge" messages under high load.  I'm not sure what's causing these -
- it seems that the 3c505 occasionally just loses a command.  They seem not to
- be fatal, anyway.
-
- There may be some initialisation problems still lurking, particularly when
- warm-booting from DOS (ELP_NEED_HARD_RESET seems not to help).
-
-Authors:
- The driver is mainly written by Craig Southeren, email
- <craigs@ineluki.apana.org.au>.
- Parts of the driver (adapting the driver to 1.1.4+ kernels,
- IRQ/address detection, some changes) and this README by
- Juha Laiho <jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi>.
- Philip Blundell <pjb27@cam.ac.uk> made some more changes.