dmfe.rst (2318B)
1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2 3============================================================== 4Davicom DM9102(A)/DM9132/DM9801 fast ethernet driver for Linux 5============================================================== 6 7Note: This driver doesn't have a maintainer. 8 9 10This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 11modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License 12as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 13of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 14 15This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 16but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 17MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 18GNU General Public License for more details. 19 20 21This driver provides kernel support for Davicom DM9102(A)/DM9132/DM9801 ethernet cards ( CNET 2210/100 ethernet cards uses Davicom chipset too, so this driver supports CNET cards too ).If you 23didn't compile this driver as a module, it will automatically load itself on boot and print a 24line similar to:: 25 26 dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17) 27 28If you compiled this driver as a module, you have to load it on boot.You can load it with command:: 29 30 insmod dmfe 31 32This way it will autodetect the device mode.This is the suggested way to load the module.Or you can pass 33a mode= setting to module while loading, like:: 34 35 insmod dmfe mode=0 # Force 10M Half Duplex 36 insmod dmfe mode=1 # Force 100M Half Duplex 37 insmod dmfe mode=4 # Force 10M Full Duplex 38 insmod dmfe mode=5 # Force 100M Full Duplex 39 40Next you should configure your network interface with a command similar to:: 41 42 ifconfig eth0 172.22.3.18 43 ^^^^^^^^^^^ 44 Your IP Address 45 46Then you may have to modify the default routing table with command:: 47 48 route add default eth0 49 50 51Now your ethernet card should be up and running. 52 53 54TODO: 55 56- Implement pci_driver::suspend() and pci_driver::resume() power management methods. 57- Check on 64 bit boxes. 58- Check and fix on big endian boxes. 59- Test and make sure PCI latency is now correct for all cases. 60 61 62Authors: 63 64Sten Wang <sten_wang@davicom.com.tw > : Original Author 65 66Contributors: 67 68- Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> 69- Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> 70- Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> 71- Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>