AI(4)

📦 version 11.0, in nixpkgs unstable

🦋 AI(4) — the AT&T StarLAN Ethernet interface driver, bestie edition

okay so real talk, this is page AI(4) from the Kernel Interfaces Manual, and it's lowkey a little vintage icon. it's short, it's sweet, it's giving "niché driver that ate." let me walk you through it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

ai — the AT&T StarLAN Ethernet interface driver. that's it, that's the name, she's simple, she's iconic 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ai0 at isa? port 0x360 iomem 0xd0000 irq 7

yes bestie, copy it exactly — ai0 hangs out on isa?, port 0x360, iomem 0xd0000, irq 7. no cap, those numbers matter 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so the ai driver is the main character for these ISA bus NICs:

  • AT&T StarLAN 10
  • AT&T StarLAN Fiber

and the lore? these cards are built on the Intel 82586 Ethernet controller chip ⭐ that's the whole vibe check — ai = StarLAN, 82586 under the hood. obsessed.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read these next, iykyk:

like a little reading list, a syllabus if you will 📚✨

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Rafal K. Boni — the one who made it happen, we stan 💜

ngl this whole page is tiny but she's got range — if you're touching a StarLAN card on an ISA bus, this is your girl. no skips 💀🌸

signing off from the Debian side of things, dated June 4, 1999 — yeah she's a classic, and she's still serving 🎀💖✨

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