The 82573L has several dozen statistical counters which ... UPE = Unicast Promiscuous Enable BAM = Broadcast Accept Mode BSEX = Buffer Size Extension ...
We wrote this module as an aid for doing debugging' of our device-driver routines ... CT = Collision Threshold (=0xF) UNORTX = Underrun No Re-Transmit ...
... an excellent job of providing information to help customers use their ... hardware, writing the program code, and watching what happens when the code executes. ...
... our NIC's ability to avoid overwhelming the capacities of its link partner' ... SLU = Set Link Up D/UD = Dock/Undock status RFCE = Rx Flow-Control Enable ...
Interrupt-hander reflects' each received packet back to the station it came from ... Then let's transmit a broadcast' packet from a different anchor station, while ...
It was based on the raw sockets' protocol implemented within the Linux kernel's ... SLU = Set Link Up D/UD = Dock/Undock status RFCE = Rx Flow-Control Enable ...
Real-Time Clock's i/o-ports: 0x70-0x71. Hard Disk controller's i/o-ports: 0x01F0-01F7 ... Access to memory is atomic', whereas the multiplexed access via I/O ...
Our device-driver module nic.c' is intended to allow two programs that are ... We can view the NIC's internal memory using our 82573.c' character driver and ...
Four buffers are allocated for receiving one packet. Refresh for reuse' ... So driver needs a formula for recalculating buffer-addresses, or use a shadow' array ...
Detecting PCI devices On identifying the peripheral equipment installed in our PC Early PCs Peripheral devices in the early PCs used fixed i/o-ports and fixed memory ...
What is a packet checksum? Here we investigate the NIC s capabilities for computing and detecting errors using checksums Gigabit Ethernet frame-format Some lowest ...
But it does require adding an extra driver method' the so-called poll()' function ... Then each device-driver's poll()' method will perform a test to ...
... was jointly written by David S. Miller (see photo below) and Jeff Garzik ... Intel's filter-register at offset 0x5400 uses the little endian' storage-convention ...
... Sequence is a four-byte integer, usually computed by the hardware according ... And why did Intel's hardware designers believe that device-driver software would ...
Problem 4. A program might call our driver's write()' procedure more rapidly than the ... Interrupt Service Routine has the duty of awakening' a sleeping writer when ...