• [VOICENWS] Drivers: Intel e1000 NIC driver updated

    From VOICE News Service@1:3634/1000 to All on Sat Dec 31 19:19:45 2011

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    From: madodelDESPAM@DESPAMptdprolog.net

    There is a new OS/2 NDIS2 network driver for the Intel PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Adapter on the eComStation Betazone. This is part of the Multimac network driver project. The Standard MAC Driver Project for eComStation

    "New in version 0.1.7: - fixed suspend/resume - Added support for ACPI suspend/resume - removed the -r compiler switch The driver is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL)."

    The source code of the driver can be downloaded from: http://svn.ecomstation.nl/multimac/

    "This is an NDIS driver for Intel Gigabit PCI-Express LAN adapters.
    This driver is based on the source code of e1000e Linux kernel module
    and of nveth NVIDIA NIC driver for OS/2 developed by nickk.
    The driver released under GNU General Public License (GPL). See the
    'LICENSE' file for details.

    On certain systems, this driver my appear to load successfully even
    if supported hardware is not present. This driver supports the following devices. If your hardware is not listed below, do not install this driver.

    82571EB, 82571PT, 82572EI, 82573V, 82573E, 82573L, 82574L, 82583V,
    80003ES2LAN,
    82562V, 82562G, 82562GT, 82566DM, 82566DC, 82566MC, 82566MM, 82567V-3, 82562V-2,
    82562G-2, 82562GT-2, 82566DM-2, 82566DC-2, 82567LM-4, 82567LF, 82567LM,
    82567V,
    82567LM-2, 82567LF-2, 82567V-2, 82567LM-3, 82567LF-3, 82577LM, 82577LC, 82578DM, 82578D.

    More specifically, only the following device IDs are supported. All are
    Vendor ID 8086.
    1049, 104A, 104B, 104C, 104D, 105E, 105F, 1060, 107D, 107E, 107F, 108B,
    108C, 1096, 1098, 109A, 10A4, 10A5, 10B9, 10BA, 10BB, 10BC, 10BD, 10BF,
    10C0, 10C2, 10C3, 10C4, 10C5, 10CB, 10CC, 10CD, 10CE, 10D3, 10D5, 10D9,
    10DA, 10DE, 10DF, 10E5, 10EA, 10EB, 10EF, 10F0, 10F5, 10F6, 1501, 150C,
    294C"

    Use PCI.EXE to find the Vendor ID and the Device ID (PCI.EXE is in \ecs\install\DETECTEI on eCS 2.x otherwise you can download it from Hobbes http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/misc/pci104vka.zip along with the latest PCI device list http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/system/pcidevs_20111031.zip
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