Hi Marc, Thanks for the hint, it saved me a lot of effort, I'll do further experiments with N2K driver as soon as I'll be able to run this machine again. Thanks, Paul On Thu, 12 Apr 2018, Marc-François Lucca-Daniau wrote: > Thanks for the snapshot, it helped a lot. > > The main chip of your card is the WD83C690, that is a clone of the > DP8390D (same packaging with the first pin in the middle of one side). > After reading the PD8390D datasheet, I suddenly remembered that this > chip is part of the NE1K / NE2K reference design. > > So, to answer your question, it would be easy to tune the existing > ELKS N2K driver for your card, without any challenge. You would have > only to tune the IRQ and the I/O base, and address the usual tricks of > the NE2K implementations. As the ROM slot is not populated, I guess > you could forget the MEM base. > > MFLD > > > 2018-04-12 17:34 GMT+02:00 Paul Osmialowski <pawelo@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Hi Guys, > > > > Attached is the requested snapshot. Unfortunately, some change occured in > > the meantime, and now I need to postpone activities on this until summer > > cos nowadays I have very limited access to the place where this stuff is > > kept. > > > > Other than that, under FreeDOS it's configured as such: > > > > Packet driver for SMC8xxx adapters > > Packet driver interrupt 0x60 (96) > > Adapter: 8003WC > > I/O port: 0x240 (576) > > Interrupt number: 0x2 (2) > > Memory address: 0xCCE00 (839168) > > MAC: 00:00:c0:xx:xx:xx (so it's https://www.macvendorlookup.com/browse/192 > > - Western Digital) > > > > Thanks, > > Paul > > > > On Mon, 9 Apr 2018, Marc-François Lucca-Daniau wrote: > > > >> 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 > >> >> > -- > >> >> > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > >> >> > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> >> > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >> >> -- > >> >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > >> >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >> >> > >> -- > >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >> > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >
