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- Device Usage :
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- The openpci_8139.device is a SANA2 Device and work with MiamiDx, Genesis(AmiTCP) and maybe other TCP/IP stack.
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- Requirement :
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- This device require openpci.library v1.0 or more, see OpenPCI documentation for more information about PCI Bus supported.
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- Limitation :
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- The device can handle only one Unit (Unit 0) but in future version i will add multi-unit support.
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- Config File Usage :
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- The config File name is openpci_8139_x.config
- The "x" is the Unit number used in your TCP/IP stack (by default 0).
- Config file value :
- 0=Speed Auto Negociation
- 1=10Mb Half-Duplex
- 2=10Mb Full-Duplex
- 3=100Mb Half-Duplex
- 4=100Mb Full-Duplex
- For change to a specific speed just change the value at the top of the file.
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- You don't need to reboot each time you change this value, in fact you just need to stop
- your TCP/IP stack flush the device (type : avail flush) and restart the Device.
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- Config File Install :
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- - make a dir OpenPCI in Envarc: if it doesn't exist
- - copy the file openpci_8139_0.config in Envarc:OpenPCI/
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- Network Auto Negociation Warning :
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- By default the configuration of openpci_8139.device use the mode Auto Negociation.
- This Auto Negociation mode detect the speed of your local network (all is done by the hardware)
- and set the 8139 Chipset speed to 10Mb or 100Mb (always with Half-Duplex).
- But sometimes the Auto Negociation could fail for detect the network speed and could detect a 100Mb network
- even if in fact the network is at 10Mb and nothing will work or you will see 99% of packet loss.
- If you have this problem on your network you need to set manually the network speed to 10Mb.
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- Full-Duplex Warning :
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- If you set Full-Duplex on a network with a Hub your network will doesn't work fine,
- because with a Hub it's impossible to do Full-Duplex.
- Enable Full-Duplex only if you use a Switch or a direct link through two 10/100Mb Card.
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- This warnings are not specific to the openpci_8139.device driver but specific to the 8139A/B/C/D chipsets.
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- openpci_8139.device written by Benjamin Vernoux titan@vgr.com
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- Thanks :
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- Harry Sintonen (Piru) for the SANA2 skeleton (with this piece of code i have gained lot of time)
- Robert Reiswig (RobR) (moral support ;-), OpenPCI documentation correction, ideas, installer etc...
- Special Thanks to the MorphOS team
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