Ether1 functional?

I see Sprow has been doing some messing about with ethernet cards recently. I’m about to give away my Ether1, and a thought occurred to me. The reason my Ether1 has been sitting around doing nothing for so many years is the DCI4 driver was quite broken – as I recall it doesn’t actually receive packets. Supposedly the DCI2 driver was OK. I did indeed fail to get the RISC OS 4 DCI4 driver to receive anything on a Risc PC.

Looking at the Ether1 driver in CVS, it appears it’s had almost no attention since committing to CVS in 2000. There’s one extra commit related to a timing problem on StrongARM machines. That does suggest that the packet reception problem was fixed – can anyone confirm?

Can hold back on giving away the card if it’s useful for fixing this.

Belatedly: Ether1 DCI4 works with Internet4, have had an A540 online with that combination and AntSuite – so for RiscPC use I think you would need to take !Internet and !InetSetup out of !Boot and provide an alternative, or substitute all RMEnsure/RMLoad instances to point to Internet4.

Does anyone have a binary compiled from the 2000 sources? The module I have is from (IIRC) 1996 so perhaps there were some improvements? The notes at https://www.riscosopen.org/viewer/view/castle/RiscOS/Sources/Networking/Ethernet/Ether1/VersionNum suggest so – and also that the Internet5 issue had been fixed.