This slow demise of the ISA bus has reduced the involvement of Manufacturer and model, and what settings are to be used. The designers of the PCI bus recognized the problem withĬard detection on the old ISA bus, and so added support forĮach card to be able to communicate to the host computer their To collect dust with the 386 and 486 computers of yesteryear. Turned to this guide for help on doing this.įortunately, the newer PCI bus can be found in nearly everyĬomputer that is out there today, and the ISA bus is left Involved in supplying this information to linux, and they To determine what cards were installed, or what settingsĮach card was to use. The ISA bus had no sane or safe way for linux In the early days of linux, the old ISA type ethernet cards That information can be found in various other Linux documentation. Stages of setup (choosing an internet address, routing, etc). It covers common hardware configuration problems, and problemsĪssociated with choosing the right driver, and then getting thatĭriver loaded and functional. Of support for most of the common ethernet cards available. The Ethernet-Howto contains detailed information on the current level
8.3 Using the Ethernet Drivers as Modules.8.2 Passing Ethernet Arguments to the Kernel.
8.1 Transmit FIFO Buffers and Underrun Errors.7.5 Performance Implications of NAPI (Rx interrupt mitigation).7.4 Performance Implications of Hardware Checksums.7.3 Performance Implications of Zero Copy.7.2 Performance Implications of Bus Width.6.2 Diagnostic Programs for Ethernet Cards.6.1 Configuration Programs for Ethernet Cards.Software Configuration and Card Diagnostics 4.41 SMC (Standard Microsystems Corp.) Ħ.4.31 Novell Ethernet, NExxxx and associated clones.4.22 IBM / International Business Machines.Vendor/Manufacturer/Model Specific Information 2.7 Problems with SMC Ultra/EtherEZ and WD80*3 cardsĤ.2.6 Problems with NE1000 / NE2000 cards (and clones).2.5 The ether= thing didn't do anything for me.2.4 Using More than one Ethernet Card per Machine.2.3 Alpha Drivers - Getting and Using them.2.1 How do I tell Linux what driver to use?.1.5 Type of cable that your card should support.1.3 What do I need to to get ethernet working?.That information is found in various other Linux documentation. On the hardware and low level driver aspect of the ethernet cards,Īnd does not cover the software end of things like ifconfigĪnd route.
This is the Ethernet-Howto, which is a compilation of informationĪbout which ethernet devices can be used for Linux, and how to Linux Ethernet-Howto by Paul Gortmakerv2.9, Aug 25, 2003