Rudhuwan Abu Bakar wrote: > here is the source code of the NIC with rtl8139c. [ As a comment to the list, which I added back to the recipient list, the attachment of this private e-mail was a Linux driver for the "MyEC710-TX" ] A closer inspection (doing a diff compared to the current RTL8139 driver from Don Becker - BTW: does anyone on the list have a 1.09 version of Don Becker's RTL8139 driver lying around?) turned out that the only change to the stock driver is a different PCI device id of the cards (vendor ID is Realtek, but device ID is different) and possibly - couldn't check that because I don't have the driver version matching - a slight change in the media detection code. So it seems some clown is starting the same mess as with the tulip chip. People never learn. Obviously the maker of the card changed the device ID setting in the EEPROM from the default one for unknown reasons. This makes the card incompatible with the stock RTL8139 drivers, because the RTL8139 chip uses the configuration values from EEPROM if they are present. BTW: I personally doubt that the person who changed the 20 lines to make the MyEC710-TX driver was actually Don Becker. Probably someone is just being clever and has the bug reports for a non-supported hacked up and outdated driver be sent to Don Becker, who cannot do anything about them. Rudhuwan: a quick test if I'm right would be to edit rtl8139.c in the src directory of the Etherboot distribution, replacing the identifier PCI_DEVICE_ID_REALTEK_8139 by the constant 0x16a2. Cheers to the engineers at Mysem for this really incredible achievement. They even quote Realtek's RTL8139 feature list incorrectly. Klaus =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Klaus Espenlaub <espenlaub@informatik.uni-ulm.de> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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