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- The 3Com Etherlink Plus (3c505) driver.
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- This driver now uses DMA. There is currently no support for PIO operation.
- The default DMA channel is 6, and is set at compile time.
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- If no base address is given at boot time, the driver will autoprobe
- ports 0x300, 0x280 and 0x310 (in that order). If no IRQ is given, the driver
- will try to probe for it.
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- The driver can be used as a loadable module. See net-modules.txt for details
- of the parameters it can take.
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- At the moment, the driver probably won't work with old (revision 2) hardware.
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- There is one compile-time setting in the CONFIG file:
- ELP_DEBUG
- The driver debug level. It's probably best to leave it at 0 most of the time.
- If you are having trouble, setting it to 1 may give you more information.
- Any higher setting is too verbose for most purposes.
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- To do:
- Support for old boards
- Make DMA configurable at run time
- Improve probe/setup code
- Test multicast and promiscuous operation
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- Authors:
- The driver is mainly written by Craig Southeren, email
- <craigs@ineluki.apana.org.au>.
- Parts of the driver (adapting the driver to 1.1.4+ kernels,
- IRQ/address detection, some changes) and this README by
- Juha Laiho <jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi>.
- DMA mode, more fixes, etc, by Philip Blundell <pjb27@cam.ac.uk>
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