ne MD driver on NetBSD/dreamcast

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Nagoya University Amateur Radio Club, Japan

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News:

• 2002/01/16: Dual NIC
• 2001/11/21: The performance was shown.
• 2001/11/19: dmesg

About NetBSD/dreamcast

• NetBSD/dreamcast official page

About this driver

• The version of NetBSD-current is 1.5V.
• The ne2000 interrupt handler is invoked by the "callout" routine polling the IRQ signal line.
• The performance is not good.
  • 140kB/sec (in sending)
  • 200kB/sec (in receiving)
• Not work with IDE drives for now. (it's future work)

Dmesg outputs

• Dual NIC
• Single NIC

Tested chips

• RTL8019AS (one of the most famous NE2000 clone chip)

Related links

• NetBSD/dreamcast
  • NetBSD/dreamcast official page
  • NetBSD/dreamcast FAQ
  • NetBSD/dreamcast Mailing List archive

• NetBSD/hpcsh
  
  • NetBSD/hpcsh official page

  • NetBSD/hpcsh snapshot

    Binary distributions for NetBSD/dreamcast are currently not available.So I'm using NetBSD/hpcsh binary distributions.

• Dreamcast
  • Dreamcast Programming
  • bITmASTER's DC IDE-HD Interface

• How to run your binary images on DC
  • IP upload slave
  • Bootable CD-Rs
  • Serial upload slave

• How to cross-build NetBSD kernel
  • Cross-building NetBSD

• How to get NetBSD-current
  • Tracking NetBSD-current

Hardwares

NIC

ne0 at dppbus0
ne0: NE2000 (RTL8019) Ethernet
ne0: Ethernet address 00:60:67:20:26:b6
ne0: 10base2, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, auto, default [0x00 0x70] auto

counter: (since 2001.11.19)
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