Re: [jornada] 2.4 kernel driver for 8139

Beware though issues of 16-bit PC-Card vs 32-bit CardBus. AFAIK, the
SA1111 USB controller know about 32-bit CardBus. So if your 8139 card
is CardBus, you're out of luck. Double check before you bother.

A 8MHz 16-bit PCCard interface bus can barely sustain the throughput
of a 100Mbps ethernet card, and it's likely that all 100bT pcmcia card
you'll find are actually 33MHz 32-bit CardBus, which won't work on the
Jornada 720 or any StrongARM platform.
http://www.pcmcia.org/papers/new_bus.htm

Then again, you'll be happy enough with an old 16-bit card, and there
might even have been high-end 100bT 16-bit cards at one point -- but
they will be hard to find. All recent cards are 32-bit. Maybe some
cards can work in both modes?

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On 27/07/05, Colin Sauze <colinsauze_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I know most network card drivers should work under arm, they
> just haven't been compiled for your kernel. If you recompile the kernel
> and turn on the options for 8139too (CONFIG_8139TOO=m in the .config
> file) then you should be able to use it.
>
> Adam Pribyl wrote:
>
> >I am triing to use 2.4 kernel for now, as I do not have flashboard, I
> >downloaded modified 2.4 kernel that Michael Gernoth did. Question is:
> >there is almost no driver for network cards (except wireless), does this
> >mean others are not possible to be compiled for ARM, or are only not
> >configured in kernel config? I am looking for 8139too module for realtek
> >cards which are very common.
Received on Wed Jul 27 2005 - 11:41:42 EDT