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network related

Chakravarthi — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 07:51:07 GMT

following is the specification of the PCI ethernet card in my computer.
(obtained from /proc/pci file in Linux). Can you tell me
what is the specification of my PCI card.

Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 8).
IRQ 21.
Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf4102000 [0xf4102fff].
I/O at 0x2c00 [0x2c3f].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf4000000 [0xf40fffff].

i.e. what is the best network speed this card can give ?

Re: network related

Balaji N — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 08:08:02 GMT

googling give a lot of links.

just check them.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=ethernet+pro+100+linux+intel&spell=1
http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/24659.htm

hth
-balaji

Re: network related

Donald Kok — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 10:13:39 GMT

The card can run 100 Mbit full duplex.

What else do you want to know?

Greetzz
Donald