Re: offshore RTL8029 chip
Dragisa Duric (dragisha@bilbo.ho.com)
Sun, 16 Feb 1997 12:27:23 +0100
gmitch@woodlea.wintermute.co.uk (Graham Mitchell) wrote:
: I have one of these cards too, except in the UK it's marketed as a no
: name clone card by quite a few places (I got mine from simply
: computers). It works well under Win95, and WinNT, but I'd like a
: Linux driver for one too, so any information would be appreciated. If
: someone already has a driver and is looking for Alpha/Beta testers,
: let me know please.
: Graham
As far as I know, these are NE2000 clones, PCI flawor. I am not 100 percent
sure, but some similar cards got recognized as NE2000 at 0x6000. I have one
of these cards on my desk, in nice no-name box, but my Linux boxes are not
giving me excuse to reboot them so I can try that here. O:)
: Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse,
: cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.