Linksys NC100 v. 2.1

[mark at buttery.org (Mark J. Dulcey)]

Nicholas Oleksinski wrote:
> 
> Hi:
> The drivers zip file for the Linksys NC100 v. 2.1 (NetworkEverywhere)
> PCI ethernet card says that I can get the source code for the ethernet
> driver from:
> 
> FTP://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/tulip.c
> FTP://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/kern_compat.h
> 
> But this doesn't work.  Does anyone know where else I can get these?
> Thanks.

The "tulip" driver is part of the standard Linux source tree, so unless
the version they're pointing to had special modifications, you should be
able to just look in your standard Linux sources to find it. Support for
the Linksys board is probably standard in 2.2.18 (which contains quite a
bit of stuff back-ported from the 2.4 series), as well as the current
2.4 kernels.

An aside - beware using these Tulip-like boards in an Alpha. In my
system (based on the noname motherboard), an old Netgear card (based on
an actual Digital 21140) works fine, but a more recent one (based on a
Lite-On chip) is unstable. The newer board works fine in an Intel-based
Linux system, however, so I think the problem is with the driver. (Or it
could be some weird hardware incompatibility between the Digital PCI
implementation on the motherboard and the PCI on the card.)

One page with info on the Tulip driver that I have managed to find:
http://www.phy.duke.edu/brahma/beowulf/linux/drivers/tulip.html  -- but
some of the things that this page links to (including the cesdis site)
seem to be dead.
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