On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > The RTL8029 is a PCI NE2000 clone. `modprobe ne2k-pci' should work. > > Hooray, it worked!! Thank you very much! I'm getting solid 650 MB/s through > it, which may be limited by my hub; but that's a good bit more than the cable > modem will give me so it's all I need.
I assume you mean `650 kB/s'? That sounds more normal :-) > This cries out for a patch to at the very least Documentation/Configure.help, > and probably drivers/net/Config.in. Are there many other NE2000 clones? > I'll put together patches for 2.2 and 2.4 > within the next week or so, unless someone gives a good reason not to. Yes, almost all cheap Ethernet cards are NE2000 clones. The list of (known and supported) PCI NE2000 clones is in drivers/net/ne2k-pci.c (pci_clone_list[]), and probably also in the Ethernet-HOWTO (cfr. Documentation/Configure.help). Unfortunately most no-name Ethernet cards are sold in boxes that don't mention what's really inside, just that there's a floppy with a driver for Windows :-( > Previously on this thread I asked why there are so few network card modules > in the Debian pmac .config. Now let me add: why does i386 have > CONFIG_FILTER, CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL, CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE, > etc., and we don't? If there is no particular reason, I'll file a (wishlist) > bug report against kernel-image-2.2.17-pmac, and hope the change gets into > 2.2r1. (Not that 2.2.17 boots on my > StarMax 3000 with quik, but it might be helpful for some others.) Are you sure these are not available on PPC? I see no reason why these generic networking options wouldn't work. Perhaps people simply forgot to enable them when compiling the Debian kernel? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds