$Id: README.de,v 1.3 1994/10/12 11:19:36 se Exp $ ---------------- The enclosed driver should be considered as beta-test software. It has run on exactly one machine. Therefore testing has been limited. This driver is in no way supported by Digital Equipment. See the disclaimers in the sources for more. This driver the DEC DE435 PCI NIC. It should also work with other PCI boards that use the DC21040-AA chip (also known as TULIP). This driver requires the DC21040-AA to be pass 2.3 or later. If you are using a eariler pass chip, you may encounter undetected transmit corruptions. This driver also requires that DC21040-AA use a serial Ethernet address ROM as described in the DC21040 specification. The DEC DE425 EISA NIC based on the DC21040-AA is not support at this time. A future update will include support for it. The driver includes full support for both BPF and IP Multicast. If the autosensing of the driver fails, you can use ifconfig(8) to switch the driver to the correct port. ifconfig de0 altphys Thinwire/AUI port ifconfig de0 -altphys 10baseT/UTP port To enable this driver, you first need to add the following lines to your config file (in i386/conf): controller pci0 device de0 The PCI support code will automatically determine and enable the correct IRQ. Now you are ready to rebuild your kernel, reboot, and see if the driver can configure your board. When the system boots, you will hopefully something close to: de0 int a irq 9 on pci0:7 reg20: virtual=0xf290a000 physical=0xc0001000 de0: enabling Thinwire/AUI port de0: DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 ethernet address 08:00:2b:e2:1e:09 bpf: de0 attached in the startup log. If so, the board configured properly and should be ready to use.