RE: Re: ROM & FlashCard

[Charlie Brady <cbrady@ind.tansu.com.au>]

On Tue, 14 Jul 1998 markus@infoscape.com wrote:

> Hans Johnson writes:
>  > > What kind of ISA Ethernet card is that anyway? NE2000, WD80x3, ...?
>  > > You usually need to set jumpers or run configuration software to
>  > > configure the ROM socket for your EPROM size and the desired location
>  > > in you computer's memory space.
>  > 
>  > I'm not really sure, but the main Chips on the card read "Compex".  According 
>  > to the manual, the card can be jumpered to run in either NE2k mode or in
>  > WD80x3 mode... I'm not sure wich one would be better at this point. 
> 
> Usually, WD80x3 mode should give you better performance, since it can
> used memory-mapped I/O rather than port I/O. some of these
> multi-standard cards, had bugs though; if you wanted to use the ROM
> socket, you had to select NE2k mode.

Ken Yap has added some jumper information to the etherboot pages which
Compex recently sent me about a card from this family. The "Ready/Link 16"
from Compex works fine in WD mode under Linux. I haven't yet tried
etherboot, but since I have just acquired a dozen of these, I soon will
[Apply flexible meaning of "soon" :-)].

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