Re: [Etherboot-developers] Missing NIC Drivers

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>I prefer to pay less that 10 bucks for my NICs, especially since my
>collection far exceeds the number of PCs that I have (and probably free
>slots).  Of course if I come across a cheap source of GB cards I will
>pitch in on that.

Ok I found the number of the chip that Natsemi made, it's 83820 and the
driver is ns83820.c in the Linux tree. According to the comments, these
are the boards that use it:

 *      Cameo           SOHO-GA2000T    SOHO-GA2500T
 *      D-Link          DGE-500T
 *      PureData        PDP8023Z-TG
 *      SMC             SMC9452TX       SMC9462TX
 *      Netgear         GA621

But I have only seen one board with it, the 8139s have swamped the cheap
NIC market. :-( But the other day I saw a cheap AN983 (Tulip). :-)

If you collect ISA cards, occasionally someone asks about the Intel
EtherExpress, and the Digital Etherworks series.

>> Then of course there are the wireless NICs which are very popular.
>
>Are the wireless pci cards any different from standard pci NICs?

I should think they look just like any other PCI NIC on the bus, but
there is the encryption key setting. Anybody know different?