Please notify me when any of u guys got a working fix for the 3c590 PCI 
driver, ok?  thx ton!

for now, I modified cron and do ifconfig down and up every five minutes.

:(

/ayn  <ayn@CMU.EDU>

On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Curt Sampson wrote:

> > You're right and I'd forgotten about that fix in the current driver
> > we have, the 590 and 595 (and the eisa variants whose numbers I've
> > forgotten) require the thresholds to be in longwords.
> 
> Oh, duh! I read this in the comments in the Linux driver a little
> while back, and wondered how it could be backward compatible if
> they did that. :-) (The reason they did this is that there's an
> 11-bit field that the packet length is put in to, and the newer
> cards now support 4.5K FDDI-size packets.)
> 
> I'll try this out today.
> 
> In other news, my 3c59x documentation is supposed to be arriving
> on Monday or Tuesday.  (I'm on holidays next week, so I'll have
> lots of time to play, but I'll have to go back into the office if
> I have to physically touch the hardware. This is a dilemma. :-))
> 
> The 3c90x documentation, however, is not available, and at this
> point the 3Com person in charge of handing this stuff out thinks
> the engineers aren't going to have it ready for her until the end
> of the year. The reason that this is important is that the 3c900
> uses a somewhat different (and faster) method of bus-master DMA
> transfers, if you run it in DMA mode. I also hear that the next
> stepping of the 3c900 chip will not support PIO mode any more,
> which means we will have to use a different driver for it.  (The
> Linux driver is extremely well documented, so I can give that a
> close reading and see how much it gives me to go on.)
> 
> Of course, I don't know anything about PCI DMA, so now there's all
> that to learn....

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