Re: Ethernet support

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Ken Tyler wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Rudi Chiarito wrote:
> > I was interested in getting an X-Surf, but apparently there's no driver
> 
> What is X-Surf ?  What speed is it, 10, 100 (gigabit ;) ? 

AFAIK all Amiga Ethernet cards are 10 Mbps only. These days the RTL8019AS
(an ISA chip) seems to be the best choice since it's very cheap and doesn't
require much glue to connect to the Zorro bus.

Faster Ethernet chips are usually PCI and require PCI busmastering to work,
which is a bit more complex than the simple Zorro-PCI FPGA bridges used in
graphics cards with PCI graphics chips. But it can be done: the DKB Wildfire
accelerator must have a better PCI bus since it seems to have a DEC21041
on-board (from looking at pictures, never saw one IRL, nor do I know anyone who
owns one).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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