Subject: Re: EtherExpress PRO/10 support
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.rhein.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/02/1997 19:55:05
> Jason Thorpe writes:
> > The "iy" driver works with the EtherExpress PRO/10 ISA, I believe.  This
> > should be commented in the driver, and in the i386 GENERIC and INSTALL
> > kernels.  (HI IGNATIOS! :-)

Hm.

Etherexpress != Etherexpress PRO.

Etherexpress PRO != Etherexpress PRO10/100.

I dont know wether the old Etherexpress PRO (supported by the iy driver)
is the same as the Etherexpress PRO/10 ISA of their new marketing.

Frankly, I'll refuse to ever again buy Intel networking equipment. Its
impossible to get the necessary information for free, and its even impossible
to get a code number you could use to _buy_ it from a distributor, and
its also impossible to find out, without buying the boards and looking
whats on them, what chipset the boards use.

The iy driver is still not ready, because in 2 years now I wasnt able to
get full programming information for the i82595 chip, for the above
reasons. (e.g., multicast isnt supported, and interupts arent as
configurable as I expected them to be from the available information).

Regards,
	Ignatios SOuvatis