1(C) 1997-1998 Caldera, Inc. 2(C) 1998 James Banks 3(C) 1999-2001 Torben Mathiasen <tmm@image.dk, torben.mathiasen@compaq.com> 4 5For driver information/updates visit http://www.compaq.com 6 7 8TLAN driver for Linux, version 1.14a 9README 10 11 12I. Supported Devices. 13 14 Only PCI devices will work with this driver. 15 16 Supported: 17 Vendor ID Device ID Name 18 0e11 ae32 Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX PCI UTP 19 0e11 ae34 Compaq Netelligent 10 T PCI UTP 20 0e11 ae35 Compaq Integrated NetFlex 3/P 21 0e11 ae40 Compaq Netelligent Dual 10/100 TX PCI UTP 22 0e11 ae43 Compaq Netelligent Integrated 10/100 TX UTP 23 0e11 b011 Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX Embedded UTP 24 0e11 b012 Compaq Netelligent 10 T/2 PCI UTP/Coax 25 0e11 b030 Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX UTP 26 0e11 f130 Compaq NetFlex 3/P 27 0e11 f150 Compaq NetFlex 3/P 28 108d 0012 Olicom OC-2325 29 108d 0013 Olicom OC-2183 30 108d 0014 Olicom OC-2326 31 32 33 Caveats: 34 35 I am not sure if 100BaseTX daughterboards (for those cards which 36 support such things) will work. I haven't had any solid evidence 37 either way. 38 39 However, if a card supports 100BaseTx without requiring an add 40 on daughterboard, it should work with 100BaseTx. 41 42 The "Netelligent 10 T/2 PCI UTP/Coax" (b012) device is untested, 43 but I do not expect any problems. 44 45 46II. Driver Options 47 1. You can append debug=x to the end of the insmod line to get 48 debug messages, where x is a bit field where the bits mean 49 the following: 50 51 0x01 Turn on general debugging messages. 52 0x02 Turn on receive debugging messages. 53 0x04 Turn on transmit debugging messages. 54 0x08 Turn on list debugging messages. 55 56 2. You can append aui=1 to the end of the insmod line to cause 57 the adapter to use the AUI interface instead of the 10 Base T 58 interface. This is also what to do if you want to use the BNC 59 connector on a TLAN based device. (Setting this option on a 60 device that does not have an AUI/BNC connector will probably 61 cause it to not function correctly.) 62 63 3. You can set duplex=1 to force half duplex, and duplex=2 to 64 force full duplex. 65 66 4. You can set speed=10 to force 10Mbs operation, and speed=100 67 to force 100Mbs operation. (I'm not sure what will happen 68 if a card which only supports 10Mbs is forced into 100Mbs 69 mode.) 70 71 5. You have to use speed=X duplex=Y together now. If you just 72 do "insmod tlan.o speed=100" the driver will do Auto-Neg. 73 To force a 10Mbps Half-Duplex link do "insmod tlan.o speed=10 74 duplex=1". 75 76 6. If the driver is built into the kernel, you can use the 3rd 77 and 4th parameters to set aui and debug respectively. For 78 example: 79 80 ether=0,0,0x1,0x7,eth0 81 82 This sets aui to 0x1 and debug to 0x7, assuming eth0 is a 83 supported TLAN device. 84 85 The bits in the third byte are assigned as follows: 86 87 0x01 = aui 88 0x02 = use half duplex 89 0x04 = use full duplex 90 0x08 = use 10BaseT 91 0x10 = use 100BaseTx 92 93 You also need to set both speed and duplex settings when forcing 94 speeds with kernel-parameters. 95 ether=0,0,0x12,0,eth0 will force link to 100Mbps Half-Duplex. 96 97 7. If you have more than one tlan adapter in your system, you can 98 use the above options on a per adapter basis. To force a 100Mbit/HD 99 link with your eth1 adapter use: 100 101 insmod tlan speed=0,100 duplex=0,1 102 103 Now eth0 will use auto-neg and eth1 will be forced to 100Mbit/HD. 104 Note that the tlan driver supports a maximum of 8 adapters. 105 106 107III. Things to try if you have problems. 108 1. Make sure your card's PCI id is among those listed in 109 section I, above. 110 2. Make sure routing is correct. 111 3. Try forcing different speed/duplex settings 112 113 114There is also a tlan mailing list which you can join by sending "subscribe tlan" 115in the body of an email to majordomo@vuser.vu.union.edu. 116There is also a tlan website at http://www.compaq.com 117 118