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

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Could you at least take one or two snapshots of your card, to be able
to see the ICs references ?

MFLD


2018-04-09 15:00 GMT+02:00 Paul Osmialowski <pawelo@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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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