Re: RT Linux

Ian Wright wrote:

> From: "Ian Wright" <Ian@...>
>
> Thanks Jon,
>
> I looked at the HOW-TO but couldn't see anything which seemed to correlate
> with anything written on these cards but I assumed that, since they seem to
> have the word 'ethernet' on them a number of times, they would probably be
> supported, at least, by some kind of generic driver - perhaps not.

No, absolutely not. The generic VGA is a fully specified register set, and
most video cards will function properly with a generic VGA driver.

There is no such thing for ethernet. There are plug-and-play versions, and
non plug-and-play. There are ones with BIOS roms, and with none.
There are bus mastering, DMA, programmed-I/O, and ISA RAM
memory interfaces, in 8-bit and 16-bit, as well as PCI. There are
ones with UTP only, BNC only, AUI only, and any combination of
the above physical connections. And, the network protocol chips range
from the well-known DEC Tulip and Intel chips, to far-out Taiwan
semi-clones.

Jon