Re: [9fans] New release

[jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com]

Some additional comments on the new update:

the elnk3 driver has code for the 3C905C. The only person I know
who has tried this reported problems but it works for me. I have
since fixed some usage of compatibility features removed by 3COM
between the 3C905B and 3C905C;

the 2114x driver may work with some cards using the PNIC and PNIC2
'near-clone' chips. There are many other such chips out there and I'd
be happy to add in the support if anyone has worked on it;

thanks to others, the PCMCIA NE2000-clone driver (ec2t) has been
made to automatically recognise the Accton EtherPair-PCMCIA and Netgear
FA410TX cards. Code has also been added to allow other compatible
cards to be recognised via plan9.ini - see the man page;

the ATA driver will recognise the Serverworks IB6566 controller and as
it is PIIX compatible, DMA modes can be enabled;

the 82365 PCMCIA driver deals better with multiple controllers;

if made to recognise the different PCI device id's, I believe the 3Dfx
Voodoo3 driver will work with the Banshee and Voodoo5 cards. If someone
has such and would be willing to try it would be appreciated. There is
no acceleration at the moment;

the following laptop/chip combinations are known to work:
	Toshiba Portégé 3440CT		S3 Savage4/IX-MV
	Compaq Presario 3060		S3 Aurora64V+
	Digital HiNote Ultra 2000	C&T 65554
	IBM Thinkpad 600X		Neomagic 256ZX
The Toshiba only has a USB floppy and isn't a good candidate for
downloading the distribution;

someone is working on a driver for the Matrox G200 and G400 cards but
it wasn't quite ready in time for the update.

--jim