Re: Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 Server Adapter

Deepak Saxena (deepak@plexity.net)
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:04:05 -0700

The Pro/100 Server Adapter is not an I2O device. The 960 is just used
to run the firmware for the card and do buffer mnagement functions
under NT and Netware BorderManager. The Pro100 driver won't work since
the driver has to go through the firmware and doesn't talk directly
to the 82558 MAC chips is my guess.

- Deepak

On Mar 04 1999, at 22:56, Alan Cox was caught saying:
> > (http://www.intel.com/network/products/pro100int.htm) doesn't explicitly say
> > whether it's an I2O device. It comes with an on-board i960 CPU, but I suppose
> > it doesn't mean it's an I2O device :-)))
>
> If you are feeling really brave you can boot my very early I2O patches kernel
> and see if that thinks its I2O. Its just about able to get as far as talking
> to an I2O device, setting it up for some subsets of devices and asking for
> the vendor information and printing it
>
> Alan
>
>
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