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1Davicom DM9102(A)/DM9132/DM9801 fast ethernet driver for Linux.
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3This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
4modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
5as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
6of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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8This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
9but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
10MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
11GNU General Public License for more details.
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14This driver provides kernel support for Davicom DM9102(A)/DM9132/DM9801 ethernet cards ( CNET
1510/100 ethernet cards uses Davicom chipset too, so this driver supports CNET cards too ).If you
16didn't compile this driver as a module, it will automatically load itself on boot and print a
17line similar to :
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19    dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
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21If you compiled this driver as a module, you have to load it on boot.You can load it with command :
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23    insmod dmfe
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25This way it will autodetect the device mode.This is the suggested way to load the module.Or you can pass
26a mode= setting to module while loading, like :
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28    insmod dmfe mode=0 # Force 10M Half Duplex
29    insmod dmfe mode=1 # Force 100M Half Duplex
30    insmod dmfe mode=4 # Force 10M Full Duplex
31    insmod dmfe mode=5 # Force 100M Full Duplex
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33Next you should configure your network interface with a command similar to :
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35    ifconfig eth0 172.22.3.18
36                      ^^^^^^^^^^^
37             Your IP Address
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39Then you may have to modify the default routing table with command :
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41    route add default eth0
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44Now your ethernet card should be up and running.
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47TODO:
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49Implement pci_driver::suspend() and pci_driver::resume() power management methods.
50Check on 64 bit boxes.
51Check and fix on big endian boxes.
52Test and make sure PCI latency is now correct for all cases.
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55Authors:
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57Sten Wang <sten_wang@davicom.com.tw > : Original Author
58Tobias Ringstrom <tori@unhappy.mine.nu> : Current Maintainer
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60Contributors:
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62Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
63Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
64Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
65Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
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