[9fans] D-Link 538 support (RTL8139 chipset)

[9fans] D-Link 538 support (RTL8139 chipset)

[andrey mirtchovski]

this adds VIDs and DIDs for two D-Link ethernet cards, based on the Realtek
8139 chipset. the cards are not on-board (we bought them for a couple of
boards that have unsupported gigabit cards to use until we write a driver)
and are reasonably cheap ($16 CAD)... fyi :)

andrey


cpu% diff ether8139.c /sys/src/9/pc/ether8139.c
639,640d638
< 	{ "dfe-538tx", (0x1300<<16)|0x1186, }, /* D-Link DFE-538TX */
< 	{ "dfe-560txd", (0x1340<<16)|0x1186, }, /* D-Link DFE-560TXD */
cpu%

Re: [9fans] D-Link 538 support (RTL8139 chipset)

[Geoff Collyer]

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[Andrey, I tried to mail this to you, but got
554 fsa.cpsc.ucalgary.ca ESMTP not accepting messages]

What are the unsupported gigabit cards and which ethernet chip(s) do
they use?

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From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] D-Link 538 support (RTL8139 chipset)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 12:42:48 -0600 (MDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306031238080.19229-100000@fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>

this adds VIDs and DIDs for two D-Link ethernet cards, based on the Realtek
8139 chipset. the cards are not on-board (we bought them for a couple of
boards that have unsupported gigabit cards to use until we write a driver)
and are reasonably cheap ($16 CAD)... fyi :)

andrey


cpu% diff ether8139.c /sys/src/9/pc/ether8139.c
639,640d638
< 	{ "dfe-538tx", (0x1300<<16)|0x1186, }, /* D-Link DFE-538TX */
< 	{ "dfe-560txd", (0x1340<<16)|0x1186, }, /* D-Link DFE-560TXD */
cpu%

Re: [9fans] D-Link 538 support (RTL8139 chipset)

[andrey mirtchovski]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Geoff Collyer wrote:

> [Andrey, I tried to mail this to you, but got
> 554 fsa.cpsc.ucalgary.ca ESMTP not accepting messages]
>
> What are the unsupported gigabit cards and which ethernet chip(s) do
> they use?
>

3C940 (also known as 3C2000) -- vid 10b7 (3Com), did 1700;

it came on board of an asus 8C400 motherboard. asus' web site has a driver
for linux (thanx north_ :) which i haven't had the time -- i just set up the
machine with the d-link today and didn't have time to look at what could be
supported off the bat.

oh, yeah -- they're putting a new firewall at the university. no internet
all morning, they probably screwed up the mail server too... :)

Re: [9fans] D-Link 538 support (RTL8139 chipset)

[andrey mirtchovski]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Geoff Collyer wrote:

> What are the unsupported gigabit cards and which ethernet chip(s) do
> they use?

more information on that (now that i had time to read through) -- the
chipset is the SysKonnect XMAC II/GEnesis one (www.syskonnect.de).. the
linux driver has support for SK-98xx cards (from the above web page),
3com's 3c940, Cnet's gigacard, D-Link and Linksis' "gigabit network adapter".

the *bsd drivers list support for SK-984*

bsd's driver points to this document:

	http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/SysKonnect/xmacii_datasheet_rev_c_9-29.pdf

there must be something on the syskonnect site too, but i haven't found it
yet.

so, do you have anything for those already, or do you mind me starting one?
if you do i'd gladly help with debugging :)

andrey

Re: [9fans] D-Link 538 support (RTL8139 chipset)

[Geoff Collyer]

I'm not sure; I'll have to look at the syskonnect web site.  I've
revived the NS 83820 driver, which drives some cards I have from
either d-link or linksys; I can't remember which.

Re: [9fans] D-Link 538 support (RTL8139 chipset)

[Geoff Collyer]

Ah, my 83820 cards are D-link DGE-500Ts.

It appears that SysKonnect have done their own unique thing.  The
GEnesis Ethernet ASIC seems to be unlike the 83820.

The 83820 cards have disappointing performance (rougly 100Mb/s) and
I'd be tempted these days to go with the Intel PRO/1000 cards.