[parisc-linux] eisa nic: intel 82556. Driver?

[Chris Jantzen]

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On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:55:25PM -0300, Diego Francisco de Gastal Morales=
 wrote:
> Hello,
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> 	I just installed linux on a HP9000/D280. It's all fine, except the machi=
ne has two eisa fast ethernet cards, with intel 82556 chipset, and I can't =
make it work.
> 	I've already searched a lot the internet, this list archives, recompiled=
 my kernel with various modules, and I am just about to loose my faith. I'v=
e found a message just like "with this chipset on eisa, you're out of luck".
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> 	Is it really so? Does anyone here heard of this nic working on linux par=
isc? Without fast ethernet, I'm afraid we'll have to give up putting linux =
on it.


I gave up on installing some EISA 3com cards in my C180. I believe the
dmac bridge in Linux isn't (yet) general enough to support anything
other than PCI.

That said, is Fast Ethernet really *that* important? You'd have to be
using the host to do fairly trivial tasks thousands of times per second
to saturate 100Mbps. In other words: at these CPU speeds, anything
seriously taxing will obviate your need for that much bandwidth. I do
builds over NFS and notice no appreciable performance hits. (And
certainly bandwidth monitors are never pegged on the network.)

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