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Clipper with Beia user's : NIC question (modified 0 times) geo_fr Profile Can anyone, which have the internal ethernet card working, could be send me the card identification ... (name, references etc .) Apparently, it's not an AMD pcnet32 ... Thanks --== Geo ==-- 03-28-2003 09:55:35

RE:Clipper with Beia user's : NIC question (modified 0 times) radarman Profile The part number is AM79C978A - it's made by AMD, and is a combination 10Base-T/HPNA adapter. I believe it's called a PCNet-Home. I'm not sure, but I believe both interfaces are connected - so it may be possible to use HPNA with the clippers. 03-28-2003 15:43:17

RE:Clipper with Beia user's : NIC question (modified 0 times) geo_fr Profile ok thanks, but what is a HPNA ?? --== Geo ==-- 03-28-2003 16:16:52

RE:Clipper with Beia user's : NIC question (modified 0 times) radarman Profile (Home) Phone Network Adapter. Essentially allows you to layer a 1Mbps ethernet like link over a normal phone line, much like DSL or ISDN. What's nice is that you don't need filters on all of your phones, and you can run it in older houses that don't have a separate cat5 for data. 03-30-2003 07:36:26

RE:Clipper with Beia user's : NIC question (modified 0 times) Arny Profile Apparently, the pcnet32 driver _can_ drive the PCNet-Home NIC, but I have yet to see this work on my IA-1 (yes, I have a _white_ machine with an internal NIC). Looking at the source for the pcnet32 driver, support for the 79C978 is called out, but the default media to use is the HPNA connection, _not_ the ethernet connection, so this either has to be overridden or configured at runtime. There is mention on another thread here ("Can you hack a Blue Clipper?") of how to tweak the pcnet32 source to fix this issue, but I've been unsucessful at building this (my 1 linux box is running Fedora, and the included libraries are _way_ too new to work with the older driver source). Does anyone out there have a _built_ copy of the "fixed" pcnet32 driver, or had any success with the related pcnethme driver (which is the driver specifically for the PCNet-Home card(s))? Alternatively, does anyone have a build of Midori or Jailbait which _works_ with an IA-1 with onboard NIC? Thanks to any and all who can help!!!! A. 08-21-2004 01:39:59

RE:Clipper with Beia user's : NIC question (modified 0 times) radarman Profile Arny, Look in the pcnet32.c/h code. The driver doesn't seem to be able to autodetect - so you will have to change the source and recompile. In fact, there is a comment in there about PHY selection, and it appears that the original author (assuming that these would only be used in HPNA adapters) forced it to HPNA mode. It isn't too hard to change PHY control in the source, and there is a constant already defined for you. I forget what it is, but all you have to do is search on the constant that is being used for PHY selection, the other three options are defined in the same place. Wish I could give you specfics, but I long ago blew away my linux development box. However, if you have the source code for the driver, you should be able to modify it to select the proper PHY. If you need the datasheet, I'm pretty sure I have a copy laying around on my server somewhere. Let me know at jshamlet<at>hotmail.com. 08-23-2004 14:11:56

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