
 After some more effords finally here it comes, the ethernet driver for
NetBSD -current for the Ariadne board from Village Tronic.

 This driver has been tested with ftp, telnet, nfs, mail, X and many
more network-things. It showed no IOerrs.

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 Unfortunately it seems the driver hangs for slow-packet connections
like telnet.  Currently we don't know why, although we believe it
might be that either the multicast-support or the send-buffer
allocation/queue does not work correctly. If anybody happen to find
the bug, please contact us. The bug only occures under -current.

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 The driver automatically detects on boot-time or plug-time which
connector - Twisted-Pair (10BaseT) or Thin-Ethernet (10Base2) - is to
be used.  The autosensing does not work if you only have 'null-modem'
-twisted-pair w/o Hub and connect thin-ethernet.  It is also
notpossible to drive a sort of 'gateway' between twisted-pair and
thin-ethernet.  If you connect both at the same time, only
twisted-pair will be used.

 The device-name is 'ae' and most presumable should work with several
boards at the same time.

 As the driver uses 32K, it should be quite fast, but as every single
access to the registers has to be byte-swapped, it is slowed down a
bit.  Nontheless, the card shows enormous speed for a low-end p-i/o
driven device.  Between an A3000/30/25 (A2065) and an A3000/40/40
(Ariadne), we got upto 350k/s for FTP and about 280k/s for NFS.

 The two parallel ports of the Ariadne are currently not supported.
If you want to write one, you probably should orientate yourself on
the MFC-II driver.

 Contact the author at:  crest@arkon.dontpanic.sub.org (unfortunaltely
it seems Klaus can not receive non-germany emails.) Klaus Burkert.

 For further requests either ask Klaus or Markus 'ill' Illenseer:
markus@tiger.teuto.de

- 04/22/1995
