[parisc-linux] Anyone use a 3c597?

[Marc Zyngier]

>>>>> "Kurt" == Kurt Fitzner <kfitzner at excelcia.org> writes:

Kurt,

Kurt> I am looking to pick up an EISA ethernet card.  I've found a
Kurt> 3c597 for fairly cheap, but upon searching I noticed a couple of
Kurt> notes on the mailing list back in 2002/2003 that mentioned
Kurt> issues with this driver.  Does anyone right now have this card
Kurt> working, and if not, does anyone have any suggestions for
Kurt> something EISA?

3c592/3c597 won't work on HPPA because we lack DMA support on the EISA
bus (no documentation). Your best bet is with a pure PIO card. I had
great success with a 3c579 (EISA version of the 3c509) on a C100.

It's only a 10Mbit/s, though.

Regards,

	M.
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