Subject: Re: D-Link DE-220PCT (NE2000 clone) doesn't probe correctly
To: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
From: Matthias Drochner <drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/08/1998 20:47:22
Excerpts from netbsd: 8-Jul-98 Re: D-Link DE-220PCT (NE200.. Dave
Huang@bga.com (1348*)

> BTW, FreeBSD and OpenBSD have the exact same problem (I guess they all use
> pretty much the same driver), while as far as I can tell, Linux works.

Looking at the Linux sources, I see that this card is listed
in the "bad clones" table, and that there is some black magic
because some cards obviously don't get the byte/word access
right.
This would explain the ethernet address read failure.

best regards
Matthias