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36 .Nd driver for 3Com EtherLink II (3c503)
42 .Cd "ec0 at isa? port 0x250 iomem 0xd8000 irq 9"
46 device driver supports 3Com EtherLink II (3c503)
50 bus which are based on the National Semiconductor DP8390/WD83C690
54 The EtherLink II supports two media types on a single card.
58 The other media is either
63 Software cannot differentiate between
69 To enable the AUI media, select the
77 To select the other media
90 .It "ec0: wildcarded IRQ is not allowed"
94 was wildcarded in the kernel configuration file.
95 This is not supported.
96 .It "ec0: invalid IRQ \*[Lt]n\*[Gt], must be 3, 4, 5, or 9"
102 values was specified in the kernel configuration file.
103 The EtherLink II hardware only supports the above listed
106 .It "ec0: failed to clear shared memory at offset \*[Lt]off\*[Gt]"
108 The memory test was unable to clear shared the interface's shared memory
110 This often indicates that the card is configured at a conflicting
113 .It "ec0: warning - receiver ring buffer overrun"
117 chip used by this board implements a shared-memory
118 ring-buffer to store incoming packets.
119 The 3c503 usually has only 8K bytes of shared memory.
120 This is only enough room for about 4 full-size (1500 byte) packets.
121 This can sometimes be a problem, especially on the original 3c503, because
122 these boards' shared-memory access speed is quite slow; typically only
124 The overhead of this slow memory access, and the fact that there
125 is only room for 4 full-sized packets means that the ring-buffer
126 will occasionally overrun.
128 When an overrun occurs, the board must be reset to avoid a lockup
129 problem in early revision DP8390
132 Resetting the board causes all of the data in the ring-buffer to be
133 lost, requiring the data to be retransmitted/received, congesting the board
135 Because of this, maximum throughput on these boards is only about
136 400-600K bytes per second.
138 This problem is exacerbated by
140 because the 8-bit boards lack sufficient packet buffer memory to
141 support the default 8K byte packets that
143 and other protocols use as their default.
144 If these cards must be used
154 to limit NFS's packet size.
155 4K (4096) byte packets generally work.