Funny enough, I finally got another ethernet daughtboard for my
laptop, and this is apparently the chip (combo?) it has. I've found it
hasn't worked for me yet. I will look into it in the coming days!
Aidan
Quoth tlaro...@kergis.com:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 07:24:28PM +1100, Oliver Lowe wrote:
Hrm,
I see what you mean, I think their usage of 0xFC80 is to catch the
higher bits in older cards, looking specifically at the definitions
for the 8110 family in the linux driver. It seems that up to this
point all the cards defined in our driver can be recognized with
0x7C[8F]0, but if s
Hi Thierry,
> Realtek uses the two masks for the macver: 0xFCF0 to do what is
> done (limitedly) with the macver on the current driver, and to set the
> MACFG (MAC firmware conFiG?) type. The second mask 0x7C80 is used
> to refine with subconfiguration. I think we should do the same: the
>
Hi Thierry,
> Thank you for the link. I will give it a look this week-end and will
> go back to you during the next week. Hopefully, joining our efforts,
> we should manage to get the cards wortking.
Excellent! It will be good to have more work/hardware when it comes to
these Realtek chips. Overt
Hi Thierry,
I too have this chip, and have been attempting to add some preliminary
support for it in ether8169.c. I have a (WIP) patch hosted at
http://oneiri.one/ether8169.patch. It's a bit of a mess right now. I
have added some nominal support for other cards with the same register
set, but have
