Subject: Re: 100base NIC's
To: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/13/1999 20:50:49
On Thu, 13 May 1999 23:37:33 -0400 (EDT)
Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com> wrote:
> It is a little worse than this. I have two 'FA310TX REV-D1' cards
> that have a "NETGEAR NGMC169B" chipset. It also appears to have a
> extern PHY that is a 'LEVEL ONE 9748', presumably the LXT-970 that
> we have support for.
>
> So it looks like NetGear has at least three families of chips, the
> Digital, the NGMC169B, and the LC82C169C. I'm guessing that the latter
> two are similar, but I have no idea.
They're Lite-On PNICs. My new Tulip driver suppors them, but it still
has some problems, and the time to finish it hasn't been easy to find.
Stay tuned. I promise.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>