NIC chipsets

[Stedy]

Hi,

The Realtek 8139 (already mentioned) a the family are popular. If you port an NE2000 driver you will get support for many cards as well as some older Realtek 10 mbit cards.

SMSC chips are used by some Zorro cards and you can get Linux source code from www.smsc.com. If you can add support for 3COM 3C509 series (10 mbit) and 3C905 (100mbit series) it would be nice. 3COM have driver documents and source code from their website.

[Stedy]

Tulip, easily.

Forget this, it's obsolete. When Intel bought DEC semiconductor rights they copied the design to make the 82559.

I remembered 2 links:
Realtek 8139 driver source for linux &
NE2000 card driver source

The most popular chipsets, in no particular order are, AMD, Intel, Realtek, National Semiconductor, 3COM & SMSC. In the UK I have come across the Intel, 3COM and Realtek parts the most.

Develop the Realtek 8139 and NE2000 drivers and you will satisfy most users, myself included.

If you want help/advice on ethernet drivers and IP stacks, contact me privately. I've ported Linux ethernet drivers, written them from scratch and wrote my own IP stack.

[Stedy]

dammy wrote:
by Stedy on 2004/1/1 18:53:56

If you want help/advice on ethernet drivers and IP stacks, contact me privately. I've ported Linux ethernet drivers, written them from scratch and wrote my own IP stack.

Well there is a small bounty for tcp/ip at TeamAROS.

Dammy

I would like to help but unfortunately I just do not have the time at the moment.

Take a look at this project Lightweight IP something I found after I wrote my stack ,which is owned by my company