Net.ether1000 and D-Link DFE-650TX

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Support,

Couldn’t get my hands on any Linksys 16-bit cards so I got a D-Link
DFE-650TX
that is NE-2000 compatible… or so it claims.

Updated to the latest-greatest PCMCIA/Net.* from QNX 4.25 and it still
refused to identify the card using Net.ether1000 so I went searching.

Apparently in June 2000 the Linux pcnet_cs driver (NE2000 Driver) had to
be updated to deal with a new MAC on this card (DL10022A) and it is
identified specifically in all the release notes.

I’m hoping that someone (Hugh :slight_smile: has taken a look at this and there is
a new Net.ether1000 floating around internally since there was none in
any of the 4.25 patches.

Before anyone jumps in with all the Pcmcia troubleshooting stuff:

  • I’ve been through the DOS config. It wants to live @300/11 and works fine
    in DOS.
  • My Linksys EC2T works just fine at the same addresses.
  • The Net.ether1000 driver kicks out mismatches on verifying the initial
    data.
  • I’ve been thorough the width/no width issue in pcmcia.cards.
  • It is a Cirrus Logic PD6729 controller and I realize from notes that
    people have
    seen some data corruption on D-Link cards but I haven’t gotten that far…
    (BTW
    there are notes in the pcmcia sourceforge project on fixing this problem…)

Other ideas are welcome!

Thanks,
Jay Hogg

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Previously, Jay Hogg wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:

Support,

Couldn’t get my hands on any Linksys 16-bit cards so I got a D-Link
DFE-650TX
that is NE-2000 compatible… or so it claims.

Updated to the latest-greatest PCMCIA/Net.* from QNX 4.25 and it still
refused to identify the card using Net.ether1000 so I went searching.

Apparently in June 2000 the Linux pcnet_cs driver (NE2000 Driver) had to
be updated to deal with a new MAC on this card (DL10022A) and it is
identified specifically in all the release notes.

If the pcnet_cs driver was updated, it sounds as though this might be an
AMD chip, so there is a possibility that our Net.ether2100 driver might
work with this adapter. No promises! :slight_smile:

I’m hoping that someone (Hugh > :slight_smile: > has taken a look at this and there is
a new Net.ether1000 floating around internally since there was none in
any of the 4.25 patches.

Sorry Jay, you are out of luck here! :frowning: The D-Link DFE-650TX is a 10/100
ethernet adapter, which we don’t support. As a matter of fact, we don’t
support any 10/100 PCMCIA cards. We support 10/100 CardBus adapters though.

Before anyone jumps in with all the Pcmcia troubleshooting stuff:

  • I’ve been through the DOS config. It wants to live @300/11 and works fine
    in DOS.
  • My Linksys EC2T works just fine at the same addresses.
  • The Net.ether1000 driver kicks out mismatches on verifying the initial
    data.
  • I’ve been thorough the width/no width issue in pcmcia.cards.
  • It is a Cirrus Logic PD6729 controller and I realize from notes that
    people have
    seen some data corruption on D-Link cards but I haven’t gotten that far…
    (BTW
    there are notes in the pcmcia sourceforge project on fixing this problem…)

Other ideas are welcome!

Thanks,
Jay Hogg

\

–

Hugh Brown (613) 591-0931 ext. 209 (voice)
QNX Software Systems Ltd. (613) 591-3579 (fax)
175 Terence Matthews Cres. email: hsbrown@qnx.com
Kanata, Ontario, Canada.
K2M 1W8

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Previously, Hugh Brown wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:

Previously, Jay Hogg wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
Support,

Couldn’t get my hands on any Linksys 16-bit cards so I got a D-Link
DFE-650TX
that is NE-2000 compatible… or so it claims.

Updated to the latest-greatest PCMCIA/Net.* from QNX 4.25 and it still
refused to identify the card using Net.ether1000 so I went searching.

Apparently in June 2000 the Linux pcnet_cs driver (NE2000 Driver) had to
be updated to deal with a new MAC on this card (DL10022A) and it is
identified specifically in all the release notes.


If the pcnet_cs driver was updated, it sounds as though this might be an
AMD chip, so there is a possibility that our Net.ether2100 driver might
work with this adapter. No promises! > :slight_smile:

I’m hoping that someone (Hugh > :slight_smile: > has taken a look at this and there is
a new Net.ether1000 floating around internally since there was none in
any of the 4.25 patches.


Sorry Jay, you are out of luck here! > :frowning: > The D-Link DFE-650TX is a 10/100
ethernet adapter, which we don’t support. As a matter of fact, we don’t
support any 10/100 PCMCIA cards. We support 10/100 CardBus adapters though.

My apologies! Its Monday. We do support 10/100 CardBus, but only under NTO!

Before anyone jumps in with all the Pcmcia troubleshooting stuff:

  • I’ve been through the DOS config. It wants to live @300/11 and works fine
    in DOS.
  • My Linksys EC2T works just fine at the same addresses.
  • The Net.ether1000 driver kicks out mismatches on verifying the initial
    data.
  • I’ve been thorough the width/no width issue in pcmcia.cards.
  • It is a Cirrus Logic PD6729 controller and I realize from notes that
    people have
    seen some data corruption on D-Link cards but I haven’t gotten that far…
    (BTW
    there are notes in the pcmcia sourceforge project on fixing this problem…)

Other ideas are welcome!

Thanks,
Jay Hogg




\

Hugh Brown (613) 591-0931 ext. 209 (voice)
QNX Software Systems Ltd. (613) 591-3579 (fax)
175 Terence Matthews Cres. email: > hsbrown@qnx.com
Kanata, Ontario, Canada.
K2M 1W8

–

Hugh Brown (613) 591-0931 ext. 209 (voice)
QNX Software Systems Ltd. (613) 591-3579 (fax)
175 Terence Matthews Cres. email: hsbrown@qnx.com
Kanata, Ontario, Canada.
K2M 1W8

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Hugh Brown wrote in message …

Previously, Hugh Brown wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
Previously, Jay Hogg wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
Support,


If the pcnet_cs driver was updated, it sounds as though this might be an
AMD chip, so there is a possibility that our Net.ether2100 driver might
work with this adapter. No promises! > :slight_smile:

I’m hoping that someone (Hugh > :slight_smile: > has taken a look at this and there is
a new Net.ether1000 floating around internally since there was none in
any of the 4.25 patches.


Sorry Jay, you are out of luck here! > :frowning: > The D-Link DFE-650TX is a 10/100
ethernet adapter, which we don’t support. As a matter of fact, we don’t
support any 10/100 PCMCIA cards. We support 10/100 CardBus adapters
though.


My apologies! Its Monday. We do support 10/100 CardBus, but only under NTO!

Unfortunately I knew the CardBus/Nto issue… what I was hoping was since
pcnet_cs is the NE2000 Linux driver that I might get lucky :slight_smile:

Is there a particular reason that QNX isn’t supporting any 10/100 PCMCIA
(16
bit) cards if they are this close to existing drivers? I’m sure a lot of
other
QNXers would love to have a 100mb PCMCIA driver that runs under QNX4.

I forget… what was it that you drink :wink:

Jay

5

Previously, Jay Hogg wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:

Hugh Brown wrote in message …
Previously, Hugh Brown wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
Previously, Jay Hogg wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
Support,


If the pcnet_cs driver was updated, it sounds as though this might be an
AMD chip, so there is a possibility that our Net.ether2100 driver might
work with this adapter. No promises! > :slight_smile:

I’m hoping that someone (Hugh > :slight_smile: > has taken a look at this and there is
a new Net.ether1000 floating around internally since there was none in
any of the 4.25 patches.


Sorry Jay, you are out of luck here! > :frowning: > The D-Link DFE-650TX is a 10/100
ethernet adapter, which we don’t support. As a matter of fact, we don’t
support any 10/100 PCMCIA cards. We support 10/100 CardBus adapters
though.


My apologies! Its Monday. We do support 10/100 CardBus, but only under NTO!

Unfortunately I knew the CardBus/Nto issue… what I was hoping was since
pcnet_cs is the NE2000 Linux driver that I might get lucky > :slight_smile:

Yes, it is like the NE2000, but it also requires PHY code to do the 10/100
switching. At present the NE2000 driver has no support for speed switching.

Is there a particular reason that QNX isn’t supporting any 10/100 PCMCIA
(16
bit) cards if they are this close to existing drivers? I’m sure a lot of
other
QNXers would love to have a 100mb PCMCIA driver that runs under QNX4.

If there is a big enough demand for this, we might consider it. The only
drawback is that the throughput at 100Mb is not that fantastic with an
ISA device. This is the reason that we concentrated on the NTO CardBus
adapters, as these are 32-bit and have much better throughput at 100Mb.

I forget… what was it that you drink > :wink:

Now, now Jay, don’t tempt me! :slight_smile:

Jay

\

–

Hugh Brown (613) 591-0931 ext. 209 (voice)
QNX Software Systems Ltd. (613) 591-3579 (fax)
175 Terence Matthews Cres. email: hsbrown@qnx.com
Kanata, Ontario, Canada.
K2M 1W8

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So,
Before I start a movement to get the PHY support in the Net.ether1000
driver
since the number of PCMCIA cards that are 10mb only is declining…

How big of a job is this?
a) You already spent more time responding than it would take to write the
code;
b) 6 pack;
c) Case of ???
d) Very large project, many people,hundreds of hours?

I realize the bandwidth isn’t going to be “up to snuff” with PCI or CardBus
but
it is getting into available cards, and 40-60 is better than 10.

Anybody else interested?

Jay

Hugh Brown wrote in message …

Previously, Jay Hogg wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:

Hugh Brown wrote in message …
Previously, Hugh Brown wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
Previously, Jay Hogg wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
Support,


If the pcnet_cs driver was updated, it sounds as though this might be
an
AMD chip, so there is a possibility that our Net.ether2100 driver
might
work with this adapter. No promises! > :slight_smile:

I’m hoping that someone (Hugh > :slight_smile: > has taken a look at this and there
is
a new Net.ether1000 floating around internally since there was none
in
any of the 4.25 patches.


Sorry Jay, you are out of luck here! > :frowning: > The D-Link DFE-650TX is a
10/100
ethernet adapter, which we don’t support. As a matter of fact, we
don’t
support any 10/100 PCMCIA cards. We support 10/100 CardBus adapters
though.


My apologies! Its Monday. We do support 10/100 CardBus, but only under
NTO!

Unfortunately I knew the CardBus/Nto issue… what I was hoping was since
pcnet_cs is the NE2000 Linux driver that I might get lucky > :slight_smile:


Yes, it is like the NE2000, but it also requires PHY code to do the 10/100
switching. At present the NE2000 driver has no support for speed switching.

Is there a particular reason that QNX isn’t supporting any 10/100 PCMCIA
(16
bit) cards if they are this close to existing drivers? I’m sure a lot of
other
QNXers would love to have a 100mb PCMCIA driver that runs under QNX4.


If there is a big enough demand for this, we might consider it. The only
drawback is that the throughput at 100Mb is not that fantastic with an
ISA device. This is the reason that we concentrated on the NTO CardBus
adapters, as these are 32-bit and have much better throughput at 100Mb.

I forget… what was it that you drink > :wink:

Now, now Jay, don’t tempt me! > :slight_smile:

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“Jay Hogg” <Jay.Hogg@t-netix.com> wrote in message
news:94kug4$l49$1@inn.qnx.com…

So,
Before I start a movement to get the PHY support in the Net.ether1000
driver
since the number of PCMCIA cards that are 10mb only is declining…

How big of a job is this?
a) You already spent more time responding than it would take to write the
code;
b) 6 pack;
c) Case of ???
d) Very large project, many people,hundreds of hours?

I realize the bandwidth isn’t going to be “up to snuff” with PCI or
CardBus
but
it is getting into available cards, and 40-60 is better than 10.

Anybody else interested?

Me, I’ll share to cost of b) or) c with you Jay.

Jay

Hugh Brown wrote in message …
Previously, Jay Hogg wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:

Hugh Brown wrote in message …
Previously, Hugh Brown wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
Previously, Jay Hogg wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
Support,


If the pcnet_cs driver was updated, it sounds as though this might
be
an
AMD chip, so there is a possibility that our Net.ether2100 driver
might
work with this adapter. No promises! > :slight_smile:

I’m hoping that someone (Hugh > :slight_smile: > has taken a look at this and
there
is
a new Net.ether1000 floating around internally since there was
none
in
any of the 4.25 patches.


Sorry Jay, you are out of luck here! > :frowning: > The D-Link DFE-650TX is a
10/100
ethernet adapter, which we don’t support. As a matter of fact, we
don’t
support any 10/100 PCMCIA cards. We support 10/100 CardBus adapters
though.


My apologies! Its Monday. We do support 10/100 CardBus, but only under
NTO!

Unfortunately I knew the CardBus/Nto issue… what I was hoping was
since
pcnet_cs is the NE2000 Linux driver that I might get lucky > :slight_smile:


Yes, it is like the NE2000, but it also requires PHY code to do the
10/100
switching. At present the NE2000 driver has no support for speed
switching.

Is there a particular reason that QNX isn’t supporting any 10/100
PCMCIA
(16
bit) cards if they are this close to existing drivers? I’m sure a lot
of
other
QNXers would love to have a 100mb PCMCIA driver that runs under QNX4.


If there is a big enough demand for this, we might consider it. The only
drawback is that the throughput at 100Mb is not that fantastic with an
ISA device. This is the reason that we concentrated on the NTO CardBus
adapters, as these are 32-bit and have much better throughput at 100Mb.

I forget… what was it that you drink > :wink:

Now, now Jay, don’t tempt me! > :slight_smile:

\

8

Previously, Jay Hogg wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:

So,
Before I start a movement to get the PHY support in the Net.ether1000
driver
since the number of PCMCIA cards that are 10mb only is declining…

How big of a job is this?
a) You already spent more time responding than it would take to write the
code;
b) 6 pack;
c) Case of ???
d) Very large project, many people,hundreds of hours?

Yes, all of the above! :slight_smile: Don’t hold your breath - it could still happen.

I realize the bandwidth isn’t going to be “up to snuff” with PCI or CardBus
but
it is getting into available cards, and 40-60 is better than 10.

Anybody else interested?

Jay

Hugh Brown wrote in message …
Previously, Jay Hogg wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:

Hugh Brown wrote in message …
Previously, Hugh Brown wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
Previously, Jay Hogg wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
Support,


If the pcnet_cs driver was updated, it sounds as though this might be
an
AMD chip, so there is a possibility that our Net.ether2100 driver
might
work with this adapter. No promises! > :slight_smile:

I’m hoping that someone (Hugh > :slight_smile: > has taken a look at this and there
is
a new Net.ether1000 floating around internally since there was none
in
any of the 4.25 patches.


Sorry Jay, you are out of luck here! > :frowning: > The D-Link DFE-650TX is a
10/100
ethernet adapter, which we don’t support. As a matter of fact, we
don’t
support any 10/100 PCMCIA cards. We support 10/100 CardBus adapters
though.


My apologies! Its Monday. We do support 10/100 CardBus, but only under
NTO!

Unfortunately I knew the CardBus/Nto issue… what I was hoping was since
pcnet_cs is the NE2000 Linux driver that I might get lucky > :slight_smile:


Yes, it is like the NE2000, but it also requires PHY code to do the 10/100
switching. At present the NE2000 driver has no support for speed switching.

Is there a particular reason that QNX isn’t supporting any 10/100 PCMCIA
(16
bit) cards if they are this close to existing drivers? I’m sure a lot of
other
QNXers would love to have a 100mb PCMCIA driver that runs under QNX4.


If there is a big enough demand for this, we might consider it. The only
drawback is that the throughput at 100Mb is not that fantastic with an
ISA device. This is the reason that we concentrated on the NTO CardBus
adapters, as these are 32-bit and have much better throughput at 100Mb.

I forget… what was it that you drink > :wink:

Now, now Jay, don’t tempt me! > :slight_smile:



\

–

Hugh Brown (613) 591-0931 ext. 209 (voice)
QNX Software Systems Ltd. (613) 591-3579 (fax)
175 Terence Matthews Cres. email: hsbrown@qnx.com
Kanata, Ontario, Canada.
K2M 1W8