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- Lines: 168
- Date:
Mon Jul 5 19:52:52 1999
- Orig file:
v2.3.9/linux/Documentation/networking/arcnet-hardware.txt
- Orig date:
Thu Jan 7 08:41:55 1999
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.3.9/linux/Documentation/networking/arcnet-hardware.txt linux/Documentation/networking/arcnet-hardware.txt
@@ -20,14 +20,14 @@
ARCnet is a network type which works in a way similar to popular Ethernet
networks but which is also different in some very important ways.
-First of all, you can get ARCnet cards in at least two speeds: 2.5Mbps
-(slower than Ethernet) and 100Mbps (faster than normal Ethernet). In fact,
+First of all, you can get ARCnet cards in at least two speeds: 2.5 Mbps
+(slower than Ethernet) and 100 Mbps (faster than normal Ethernet). In fact,
there are others as well, but these are less common. The different hardware
types, as far as I'm aware, are not compatible and so you cannot wire a
-100Mbps card to a 2.5Mbps card, and so on. From what I hear, my driver does
-work with 100Mbps cards, but I haven't been able to verify this myself,
-since I only have the 2.5Mbps variety. It is probably not going to saturate
-your 100Mbps card. Stop complaining :)
+100 Mbps card to a 2.5 Mbps card, and so on. From what I hear, my driver does
+work with 100 Mbps cards, but I haven't been able to verify this myself,
+since I only have the 2.5 Mbps variety. It is probably not going to saturate
+your 100 Mbps card. Stop complaining. :)
You also cannot connect an ARCnet card to any kind of Ethernet card and
expect it to work.
@@ -52,17 +52,17 @@
useful for realtime networks.
In addition, all known ARCnet cards have an (almost) identical programming
-interface. This means that with one "arcnet" driver you can support any
-card; whereas, with Ethernet, each manufacturer uses what is sometimes a
+interface. This means that with one ARCnet driver you can support any
+card, whereas with Ethernet each manufacturer uses what is sometimes a
completely different programming interface, leading to a lot of different,
sometimes very similar, Ethernet drivers. Of course, always using the same
programming interface also means that when high-performance hardware
-facilities like PCI busmastering DMA appear, it's hard to take advantage of
+facilities like PCI bus mastering DMA appear, it's hard to take advantage of
them. Let's not go into that.
One thing that makes ARCnet cards difficult to program for, however, is the
limit on their packet sizes; standard ARCnet can only send packets that are
-up to 508 bytes in length. This is smaller than the internet "bare minimum"
+up to 508 bytes in length. This is smaller than the Internet "bare minimum"
of 576 bytes, let alone the Ethernet MTU of 1500. To compensate, an extra
level of encapsulation is defined by RFC1201, which I call "packet
splitting," that allows "virtual packets" to grow as large as 64K each,
@@ -1005,9 +1005,9 @@
only (the JP0 jumper is hardwired), and BNC only.
This is a LCS-8830-T made by SMC, I think ('SMC' only appears on one PLCC,
-nowhere else, not even on the few xeroxed sheets from the manual).
+nowhere else, not even on the few Xeroxed sheets from the manual).
-SMC Arcnet Board Type LCS-8830-T
+SMC ARCnet Board Type LCS-8830-T
------------------------------------
| |
@@ -1070,7 +1070,7 @@
DIP Switches 1-5 of SW2 encode the RAM and ROM Address Range:
-Switches Ram Rom
+Switches RAM ROM
12345 Address Range Address Range
00000 C:0000-C:07ff C:2000-C:3fff
10000 C:0800-C:0fff
@@ -1170,11 +1170,11 @@
DIP Switches:
The DIP switches accessible on the accessible end of the card while
- it is installed, is used to set the arcnet address. There are 8
+ it is installed, is used to set the ARCnet address. There are 8
switches. Use an address from 1 to 254.
Switch No.
- 12345678 Arcnet address
+ 12345678 ARCnet address
-----------------------------------------
00000000 FF (Don't use this!)
00000001 FE
@@ -1222,7 +1222,7 @@
from the upper memory regions, and then attempting to load ARCETHER
using these addresses.
- I recommend using an arcnet memory address of 0xD000, and putting
+ I recommend using an ARCnet memory address of 0xD000, and putting
the EMS page frame at 0xC000 while using QEMM stealth mode. That
way, you get contiguous high memory from 0xD100 almost all the way
the end of the megabyte.
@@ -1687,7 +1687,7 @@
|____________________________________________| |__|
-UM9065L : Arcnet Controller
+UM9065L : ARCnet Controller
SW 1 : Shared Memory Address and I/O Base
@@ -1800,7 +1800,7 @@
J1-J5 IRQ Select
J6-J21 Unknown (Probably extra timeouts & ROM enable ...)
LED1 Activity LED
-BNC Coax connector (STAR arcnet)
+BNC Coax connector (STAR ARCnet)
RAM 2k of SRAM
ROM Boot ROM socket
UFS Unidentified Flying Sockets
@@ -1905,7 +1905,7 @@
------------------------
- from Vojtech Pavlik <Vojtech.Pavlik@st.mff.cuni.cz>
-This is another SMC 90C65 based arcnet card. I couldn't identify the
+This is another SMC 90C65-based ARCnet card. I couldn't identify the
manufacturer, but it might be DataPoint, because the card has the
original arcNet logo in its upper right corner.
@@ -1942,9 +1942,9 @@
SW2 1-8: Node ID Select
SW3 1-5: IRQ Select
6-7: Extra Timeout
- 8 : Rom Enable
+ 8 : ROM Enable
BNC Coax connector
-XTAL 20MHz Crystal
+XTAL 20 MHz Crystal
Setting the Node ID
@@ -2081,11 +2081,11 @@
6-8 Base I/O Address Select
SW2 1-8 Node ID Select (ID0-ID7)
J1 IRQ Select
-J2 Rom Enable
+J2 ROM Enable
J3 Extra Timeout
LED1 Activity LED
-BNC Coax connector (BUS arcnet)
-RJ Twisted Pair Connector (daisychain)
+BNC Coax connector (BUS ARCnet)
+RJ Twisted Pair Connector (daisy chain)
Setting the Node ID
@@ -2419,7 +2419,7 @@
Legend:
-COM90C65: Arcnet Probe
+COM90C65: ARCnet Probe
S1 1-8: Node ID Select
S2 1-3: I/O Base Address Select
4-6: Memory Base Address Select
@@ -2791,7 +2791,7 @@
SW2 1-8: Node ID Select (ID0-ID7)
SW3 1-5: IRQ Select
6-7: Extra Timeout
- 8 : Rom Enable
+ 8 : ROM Enable
JP1 Led connector
BNC Coax connector
@@ -3089,7 +3089,7 @@
0 = Jumper Installed
1 = Open
-Top Jumper line Bit 7 = Rom Enable 654=Memory location 321=I/O
+Top Jumper line Bit 7 = ROM Enable 654=Memory location 321=I/O
Settings for Memory Location (Top Jumper Line)
456 Address selected
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