Tim Webb <tim_webb@AGILENT.COM> wrote:
> Has anyone had any success using the realtek RTL8019 Ethernet chip?
> Is this the easiest chip to interface an 16F877 to?

That's what Fred Eady's Packet Whacker is all about. He first wrote
about it in Circuit Cellar:

   HTML: http://www.chipcenter.com/circuitcellar/october01/c1001fe1.htm
   PDF: http://www.circuitcellar.com/echips-pdfs/1001/c1001fepdf.pdf

You can find the followup to this and more of Fred's articles, which
often deal with PICs and/or Ethernet, by consulting my index:

   http://www.dtweed.com/circuitcellar/xeadyfre.htm

-- Dave Tweed

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