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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've relied upon reports
from others:

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

Thanks are due to the dozens of alpha testers.  Special thanks are due
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:
         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
                N.B. The E2100 will not work with Linux until Cabletron
                releases the programming information!

Important defines

For Space.c
#define EI8390 0                /* The base address of your ethercard.  */
#define EI8390_IRQ 0            /* and the interrupt you want to use.   */
                                /* '0' means autoconfigure              */
For 8390.c
#define EI_DEBUG 2              /* Use '0' for no messages.             */
#define EL2                     /* For the 3c503 driver.                */
#define NE2000                  /* For the NE1000/NE2000/Ctron driver.  */
#define WD80x3                  /* For the WD8003/WD8013 driver.        */
#define HPLAN                   /* For the HP27xxx driver.              */

For the individual drivers

EI8390  Define (probably in autoconf.h or config.site.h) this to the base
        address of your ethernet card.
EI8390_IRQ Define (probably in autoconf.h or config.site.h) this to the
        IRQ line of your ethernet card.  Most drivers convert a IRQ2 to an
        IRQ9 for you, so don't be surprised.
EI_DEBUG   Set to the desired numeric debugging level.  Use 3 or
        greater when actively debugging a problem, '1' for a
        casual interest in what's going on, and '0' for normal
        use. 
NO_PINGPONG
        Define this if you don't want ping-pong transmit buffers.
EL2_AUI
        Define for this if you are using the 3c503 and use the AUI/DIX
        connector rather than the built-in thin-net transceiver.
WD_SHMEM
        Define this to override the shared memory address used by the
        WD driver.  This should only be necessary for jumpered ethercards.

If you have a Cabletron ethercard you might want to look at ne.c:neprobe()
for info on how to enable more packet buffer space.

ETHERLINK1_IRQ
ETHERLINK1 Define these to the base address and IRQ of a 3c501 (NOT 3c503)
        card. Refer to net/tcp/Space.c.

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