RTL8139 Support!!!

01000101 · Post by **01000101** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:10 pm

I have successfully completed my first driver for the RTL8139 ethernet adapter. After running ethereal on another test computer I sent custom built packets 1000 times in under 30seconds, and that is WITH text reporting to the screen (which slows it down quite a bit).

Brynet-Inc · Post by **Brynet-Inc** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:13 pm

Congratulations

Just to clarify, RTL8139 is a chipset.. one that happens to be used on several different cards.

Always nice to have support for it though..

01000101 · Post by **01000101** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:34 am

true, I used the FA311v2 card to test it.

quick question though, is the 8139'D' backwards compatible with the A-B-C-C+ revisions?

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:40 am

01000101 wrote:true, I used the FA311v2 card to test it.

quick question though, is the 8139'D' backwards compatible with the A-B-C-C+ revisions?

Yes, but you still need to check for ver and store it, as the wake up older chips is differant than new chips, also this is differant.

set LWAKE pin to active high (default value).
it is for Wake-On-LAN functionality of some motherboards.
this signal is used to inform the motherboard to execute a wake-up process.
only at newer chips.