Problem: I have two Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LAN Cards that are not
supported by any version of the tulip driver that I have been able to
find. The board and chip are both are physically identified as Linsys
EtherFast 10/100 LAN Card, Model No. LNE100TX, VERSION 4.1. It appears
that Linksys has changed the chip vendor between version 2, which I
believe is supported, and the version 4.1 card.
I find from information obtained at scyld.com that the LNE100TX is
supported with the chip vendor identified as Lite-On Communication Inc.
and chip id c115. However as seen from the dump below the vendor and
chip id have changed.
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Bridgecom, Inc: Unknown device 0985 (rev
11)
Subsystem: Bridgecom, Inc: Unknown device 0574
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 255 min, 255 max, 64 set, cache line size 04
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: I/O ports at f800
Region 1: Memory at f0dffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- AuxPwr- DSI- D1+ D2+ PME+
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
00: 17 13 85 09 17 01 90 02 11 00 00 02 04 40 00 00
10: 01 f8 00 00 00 fc df f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 02 00 00 17 13 74 05
30: 00 00 00 00 c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0b 01 ff ff
Is anyone aware of a patch to the tulip source that will recognize this
card? If not, than can anyone offer guidence to me in generating and
testing such a patch? From a brief look at the source, v0.92, I can see
at least three additions to the code, in an enum, a struct and a table,
that need to be made. However, I assume that other changes will be
required since there is no reason to believe that the two chips are
functonally idetntical. My knowledge of the details of ether card
operation is virtually nil, Therefore, any help would be greatly
accepted. I would like to have a working driver sometime before the
release of kernel version 3.x.x.
TIA
Ralph Gesler
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