Re: [SLUG] Intel PRO/100 Intelligent Server Adapter

[Tony Green <tgreen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* This one time, at band camp, Francisco Javier Garc?a S?nchez said:
> I have an Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 Intelligent Server Adapter.
> This is not the standard Intel PRO/100. This card has an intel i960
> RISC chip in addition to the 82557 chip. The idea is that this card can
> reduce the load on the CPU by placing it on the i960. I was wondering
> if there is support for this card under linux. The model number of the
> card is PILA8480.
> 
> 

Hmmmm : first search on google shows this mailing list entry from April
1998 - http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-eepro100/1998-Apr/0045.html
Very strange.....

However in Dec 1999, Don Becker (Lord Of All Things NIC) stated 
  "Read the driver selection documentation at 
  http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/index.html 
  Summary: boards with secondary processors are almost never documented,
  and thus cannot be supported. "

Since Don wrote the driver for, amongst other cards, the eepro I would
say he should know if its supported!

Full details of this message to be found at
http://www.beowulf.org/listarchives/linux-eepro100/1999/12/0018.html

Note, things may have changed since then - but not likely unless the
specs for the card have been released.

HTH

TG
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