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Subject: Enhanced Ethercard driver available for alpha test.

My "8390" Linux ethercard drivers are now available from usra.edu and
super.org in ~ftp/pub/linux/ethercards/*.  They'll be at tsx-11 and
sunsite RSN.

These drivers support all common 8390-based ethernet boards.  Currently
"common" is defined as:

        3Com Products:
*       3Com 3c503      Board loaned by Chance Reschke, USRA.edu (thanks!)
        3Com 3c503/16   and excellent documentation provided by 3Com.

        Clones-n-things
        NE1000          Novell and Eagle are useless for documentation,
*       NE2000          but copied the designs directly from NatSemi;->.

        WD/SMC products
        WD8003
*       WD8013          Board loaned by Russ Nelson, Crynwr Software.  Thanks!

* I've seen it work myself!

There is support for the following boards, but since I've only been
able to borrow a thinnet of an HP ethercard I haven't been able to test it:

        HP LAN adaptors
**      HP27245
**      HP27247
**      HP27250

Thanks are due to the dozens of alpha testers, and special thanks to Chance Reschke <@usra.edu> and Russ Nelson <@crynwr.com> for loaning me ethercards.

The following addresses are autoprobed, in this order:
wd.c:   0x300, 0x280, 0x380, 0x240
3c503:  0x300, 0x310, 0x330, 0x350, 0x250, 0x280, 0x2a0, 0x2e0
ne.c:   0x300, 0x280, 0x320, 0x340, 0x360
hp.c:   0x300, 0x320, 0x340, 0x280, 0x2C0, 0x200, 0x240

80x3 clones that are reported to work:
        LANNET LEC-45

"NE2000" clones that are reported to work:
        Alta Combo(NE2000 clone)
        Aritsoft LANtastic AE-2 (NE2000 clone w/ extra memory)
        Asante Etherpak 2001/2003
        D-Link Ethernet II
        LTC E-NET/16 P/N: 8300-200-002 (lipka@lip.hanse.de)
        Network Solutions HE-203
        SVEC 4 Dimension Ethernet
        4-Dimension FD0490 EtherBoard16
        Cabletron products:
          I've had a really bad time with Cabletron -- they strung
          me along for months before telling me all information was
          proprietary.  The following boards work, but there probably
          won't be drivers for other versions.  Complain to pkelly@ctron.com.
         E1010          No ID PROM and sketchy info from Ctron means you'll
         E1010-x        have to compile-in information about your board.
         E2010
         E2010-x

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