Re: Tornado initialization
Bogdan Costescu <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel |
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| Message-ID | <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208121945530.32192-100000@kenzo.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> |
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Fernando Barreto wrote: > I study science computing at Federal University of Santa Catarina > - Brazil. I'm researching in a project to use a NIC 3Com 3c95c (Tornado) > in a high speed comunication. So, I'm having some problens to discover > what part of your code (3c95x.c) from kernel 2.4.18 is important for > the tornado's initialization. Could you inform to us what is the essential > part of code that sets the NIC to work? Hardware initialization is done in vortex_up() mainly. But re-initialization after error is in vortex_error() or in vortex_tx_timeout() and media-related in vortex_timer(). I suggest that you get the free documentation from 3Com's site. I find it quite well written. -- Bogdan Costescu IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY Telephone: +49 6221 54 8869, Telefax: +49 6221 54 8868 E-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ vortex mailing list [email protected] http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex