> Steven Stallion wrote: >> It does not. The RTL8029AS does little more than move data back and >> forth; >> the programmer is responsible for enforcing most constraints (i.e. runt >> and toolong checking, padding, tx timeouts etc.). > IIRC, the RTL8029AS is a NatSemi DP8390 core married to a PCI bus > interface. The 8390 was the core of the Novell NE2000. The 8390 > was pretty basic in terms of functionality and had a handful of > gotchas, that, if I recall correctly, are faithfully reproduced > in the RTL8029 ;-)
Exactly :) The RTL8029AS does add support for full-duplex and flow-control, but other than that, it is really nothing more than a PCI NE2000 clone. _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list driver-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
