Would a Zorro III X-Surf work at 100Mb/s?

[platon42]

> Chris, did you ever get that PCMCIA PC-Card USB Host I sent you? (Through Michael Boehmer).

Indeed I saw it and held it in my hand once and it looked pretty nice. Unfortunately, I don't have a machine with a PCMCIA port that would fit this kind of card. If'd send you the docs and maybe even a framework, would you be able to write a low level driver for it yourself?

[platon42]

> Didn't Olaf say in one of the CAM's that he had an agreement with Hyperion that Roadshow 68k wouldn't be released before OS4 (IIRC, there was a date clause too)?

I can remember things that long ago. All this quarrelling and fighting should have been over long time ago. But as far as I know Roadstar, which is Roadshow 68k + Reaction GUI would not have been affected by some Hyperion agreement but was not released due to the GUI code not getting finished... :-(

[platon42]

> I would love a 100Mb NIC card but as Chris said...

... I have this nifty USB 2.0 10/100MBit Ethernet adapter here for 20 EUR... ;-)

[Zac67]

Crumb wrote:

Are you sure it's a RTL8139? AFAIK only RTL8029 is stable with the current firmware.

OpenPCI has got a pretty brand new driver which should actually work - worth a try since I've got a 8139 at hand.

I'm still looking for a Voodoo though - I've been told that Prometheus doesn't work without a PCI frame buffer serving as local RAM.
Just bought one at ebay, inquired before bidding that it really was PCI, wrote it on the bank transfer and I got - an AGP. sigh... :roll: