Re: Any plans for 8-bit SMC8xxx network card driver?

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Unfortunately, I'm afraid only Donald Becker may have in-depth knowledge 
abot the interior of such a card.

On Mon, 9 Apr 2018, Marc-François Lucca-Daniau wrote:

> Hello Paul,
> 
> The SMC8003WC looks like to be an ISA card, so I see no big challenge
> to implement its driver in ELKS.
> The problem would be to test that driver, as I got no such card, and
> QEMU does not emulate this one.
> Do you have the WD8003 datasheet ?
> 
> MFLD
> 
> 
> 2018-04-08 21:18 GMT+02:00 Paul Osmialowski <pawelo@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've found SMC8003WC an extremly useful card as it has normal RJ-45 socket
> > and it can 'talk' to my modern era machines (ping and telnet them by
> > their IP addresses from FreeDOS). I believe that under Linux it is
> > operated by 1993-94's drivers/net/ethernet/8390/wd.c driver ('This is a
> > driver for WD8003 and WD8013 "compatible" ethercards'). What are the
> > possible challenges in porting such an driver from 'full' Linux to ELKS?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Paul
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