I'm writing NDIS driver for RTL8139 Ethernet card.I'm unable to
understand how the transmission and reception occurs using the tx
descriptors.This card uses 4 tx descriptors.can anyone please explain
how the transmission occurs when a NDIS packet comes from other
layers? how to allocate memory? . I want the exact flow .

Thanks a ton.

Raghu

Re: Reg:Tx Descriptors in RTL8139 by Gianluca

Gianluca
Fri Oct 19 08:27:31 PDT 2007

Have you checked the datasheet of the chipset? It's freely available on the
realtek website. I had a quick look at it and I think it's not very detailed
and explanatory, but it's a good starting point.

If you have already looked at it, probably giving us a brief explanation of
how the card is supposed to work (in particular DMA, as I think the card is
using DMA to receive/transmit packets from/to the host) gives you better
chances of finding help here on this mailing list.

Have a nice day
GV

--
Gianluca Varenni, Windows DDK MVP

CACE Technologies
http://www.cacetech.com

"raghu" <raghujindia@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm writing NDIS driver for RTL8139 Ethernet card.I'm unable to
> understand how the transmission and reception occurs using the tx
> descriptors.This card uses 4 tx descriptors.can anyone please explain
> how the transmission occurs when a NDIS packet comes from other
> layers? how to allocate memory? . I want the exact flow .
>
> Thanks a ton.
>
> Raghu
>