From: apeterso@spdc.ti.com (Alan Peterson) Subject: Re: 3C503 jumper settings? Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 19:08:17 GMT
Yonik Christopher Seeley (yseeley@leland.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
: In article <1993Aug10.182704.28681@spdc.ti.com> apeterso@spdc.ti.com (Alan Peterson) writes:
: >Dean Troyer (troyer@saifr00.ateng.az.honeywell.com) wrote:
: >: In article <23pt4l$lej@travis.csd.harris.com> srp@travis.csd.harris.com (Stephen Pietrowicz) writes:
: >: >I just received a 3C503 Ethernet card with no docs. Can someone with
: >
: >: Here's how I've got one setup: (it's a 3C503TP)
: >
: >: These are the important ones:
: >: Memory: DISABLE (not sure if that's best, but the DOS drivers require it)
: >
: >My 3c503 required the memory enabled because the 3c503 driver in linux only
: >supports the 3c503 in shared memory mode.
: This is not true. My 3c503 works just fine in programmed I/O mode.
It is true! At least for myself and a few others. Its even printed in the
el.c source code, as shown below! Perhaps you have a different version
of the networking software? Perhaps Don has enhanced the 3c503 code?
/* el.c: A shared-memory NS8390 ethernet driver for linux. */
/*
Written 1992,1993 by Donald Becker. This is alpha test code.
Copyright 1993 United States Government as represented by the
Director, National Security Agency. This software may be used and
distributed according to the terms of the GNU Public License,
incorporated herein by reference.
This driver should work with the 3c503 and 3c503/16. It must be used
in shared memory mode.
The Author may be reached as becker@super.org or
C/O Supercomputing Research Ctr., 17100 Science Dr., Bowie MD 20715
*/
Alan Peterson
apeterso@spdc.ti.com