network driver

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drizzt

network driver

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someone knows a good document/tutorial about NE2000 programming?! I've already the "DP8390D/NS32490D NIC Network Interface" Controller document (got from the OSRC site), but I'd like more informations or examples...

Thanks in advance...
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Re:network driver

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I've a PCI fast-ethernet card Realtek RTL8139. I can get the I/O base address by the PCI driver and all seems to be ok.

But how to manage the card?! Can I apply NE2000 specifications using as I/O base address and IRQ line the values I find with the PCI driver?! or I need to "initialize the device" via PCI?!

Many thanks.
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Re:network driver

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hmm ... i'm not sure at all the RTL8139 is NE2000-compliant. If i were you, i'd get a look at linux driver sources and do a bit of reverse-engineering to check whether the specifications you have match the implementation ...
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