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49 lines
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$Id: README.de,v 1.3 1994/10/12 11:19:36 se Exp $
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The enclosed driver should be considered as beta-test software. It
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has run on exactly one machine. Therefore testing has been limited.
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This driver is in no way supported by Digital Equipment. See the
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disclaimers in the sources for more.
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This driver the DEC DE435 PCI NIC. It should also work with other PCI
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boards that use the DC21040-AA chip (also known as TULIP). This
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driver requires the DC21040-AA to be pass 2.3 or later. If you are
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using a eariler pass chip, you may encounter undetected transmit
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corruptions. This driver also requires that DC21040-AA use a serial
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Ethernet address ROM as described in the DC21040 specification.
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The DEC DE425 EISA NIC based on the DC21040-AA is not support at
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this time. A future update will include support for it.
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The driver includes full support for both BPF and IP Multicast.
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If the autosensing of the driver fails, you can use ifconfig(8) to
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switch the driver to the correct port.
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ifconfig de0 altphys Thinwire/AUI port
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ifconfig de0 -altphys 10baseT/UTP port
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To enable this driver, you first need to add the following lines to
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your config file (in i386/conf):
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controller pci0
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device de0
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The PCI support code will automatically determine and enable the
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correct IRQ.
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Now you are ready to rebuild your kernel, reboot, and see if the
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driver can configure your board. When the system boots, you will
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hopefully something close to:
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de0 <digital dc21040 ethernet> int a irq 9 on pci0:7
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reg20: virtual=0xf290a000 physical=0xc0001000
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de0: enabling Thinwire/AUI port
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de0: DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 ethernet address 08:00:2b:e2:1e:09
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bpf: de0 attached
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in the startup log. If so, the board configured properly and
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should be ready to use.
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