Re: Tulip NIC list?


Subject: Re: Tulip NIC list?
From: Tommy Young (tommyyoung@mac.com)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 08:36:41 MDT


what is endian pardon my stupidity
tommy

> From: "Stefan Schneider" <stefan.schneider@comsat.com.ve>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:30:31 -0400
> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
> Subject: RE: Tulip NIC list?
>
>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:45:33PM -0400, rgp systems wrote:
>>
>>> Netgear 10/100
>>> LinkSys 10/100
>>
>> Generally, yes.
>>
>
> LinkSys tends to work better but NetGear cards are way better in terms of
> performance (Once you get them working right)
>
>>> DLink
>>
>> Nope, rtl834 or something like that.
>>
>>> SMC
>>
>> Nope, if it's under the brand of SMC still, its an SMC chip and the driver
>> probably isn't endian-happy.
>>
>>> Intel
>>
>> Nope, but the driver might be endian happy.
>>
>
> Intel NE2K driver is endian independent (Go figure huh?)
>
>>> Asanté
>>
>> Generally, yes.
>>
>>> 3-Com
>>
>> No, but 3c59x (the driver that covers most new 3com PCI NICs) is endian
> safe.
>> I've got a 3c905B in my G4, and I tried out a 905C a while back.
>>
>
> As a rule of thumb all 3COM, Intel, AMD and Tulip cards are endian safe,
> case in point, the RS/6000 port. The B50 uses a PCNet32 compatible
> controller (also compatibel with the Dec net cards) and both are endian
> safe. I have besides my RS pool a couple of macs at home (Which I bought to
> run mkLinux on them) and have both Intel derivative and NetGear cards, they
> both work although I had to trick the NetGear into Tulip compatibility more.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Stefan
>



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