Not I, I've been able to get a tulip to work in the past (but it wasn't fun).
Jay Strauss
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Jay Salzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 5:11 PM
Subject: [vox-tech] tulip.c and DEC nic's
> i can't remember if someone posted a question about the DEC chip NIC with
> the tulip.c driver on vox-tech or one of the other mailing lists i'm on;
> i thought it was this one. jay, were you the one asking about this driver?
>
> from the ethernet howto:
>
> ``There are no guarantees that either `tulip.c' OR `de4x5.c' will run
> any DC2114x based card other than those they've been written to
> support. WHY?? You ask. Because there is a register, the General
> Purpose Register (CSR12) that (1) in the DC21140A is programmable by
> each vendor and they all do it differently (2) in the DC21142/3 this
> is now an SIA control register (a la DC21041). The only small ray of
> hope is that we can decode the SROM to help set up the driver.
> However, this is not a guaranteed solution since some vendors (e.g.
> SMC 9332 card) don't follow the Digital Semiconductor recommended SROM
> programming format."
>
> pete
>
>
