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Ethernet card
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 1:47 am
by Perica
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Re:Purchasing an ethernet card ...
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 2:21 am
by Pype.Clicker
that's roughly the only thing NICkStacky let me know: you're better to select between NE2000 or RTL8139. They seem to be the best documented (and still cheap) 10/100 base T adapter we have around.
Driver code available, in Linux, Moebius, Bochs ...
and probably many other OpenSource projects ...
Re:Purchasing an ethernet card ...
Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:26 am
by df
do they make PCI ne2k clones?
any cheap nic you get these days is pretty much garunteed to be an RTL chip based nic, so you should be ok.
Re:Purchasing an ethernet card ...
Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:53 am
by Solar
df wrote:
do they make PCI ne2k clones?
In numbers! Check your hardware vendor of choice; quite often they offer "no-name" products that are NE2000 compatible.
Re:Purchasing an ethernet card ...
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:10 am
by Arto
Pype.Clicker wrote:
that's roughly the only thing NICkStacky let me know: you're better to select between NE2000 or RTL8139. They seem to be the best documented (and still cheap) 10/100 base T adapter we have around.
Driver code available, in Linux, Moebius, Bochs ...
and probably many other OpenSource projects ...
I'd definitely get an NE2000 as both Bochs and QEMU provide a virtualized version of it. Makes for easier testing!
Re:Purchasing an ethernet card ...
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 11:37 am
by Pype.Clicker
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Boy! i've just hit
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/dow ... word=8139D through a GoogleQuest ... not only does it have the complete specs as PDF, but also a "programming guide" featuring illustrated description of the behaviour, etc. source code (registers, demo with PCI access coded, etc)
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