3Com offers a nice Gbit card for around 600 dollars from Tech Data. It
is the 3C985b, and it runs with the acenic driver. It has a minor problem
with DHCP, but that can be easily fixed.
----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To: Jes Sorensen <jes@linuxcare.com>
Cc: 'Linux Kernel Maillist' <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: Need e1000.o (Intel 1GB NIC driver) for 2.4.x
>
>
> > >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> writes:
> >
> > >> Unless this has changed dramatically from the original release I
> > >> looked at (v1.0 or so), then now would probably be a good time to
> > >> look into the portabillity and other 'issues' (or should I say lack
> > >> of) in the driver ;-)
> >
> > Matthew> You might want to look at the port I did for FreeBSD/OpenBSD
> > Matthew> for this card (if_wx.c/if_wxvar.h). It's really hard to get
> > Matthew> info out of Intel about the card, which is too bad because I
> > Matthew> sure like the programming model.
> >
> > Personally I would rather go pick a card from another vendor which
> > supports Free Software properly. But then again I am biased.
>
> You won't get any argument from me on that one. I had a bit of a light
> shouting match with the supposed 'manager for open source products' at
Intel
> on this subject last year:
>
> He: "You have to sign an NDA to get techical info"
> Me: "Fine. That's understandable. However, all you
> need tell then is which information you *don't*
> want made public (e.g., "XXXX feature we'd like
> to not see out there"). But a basic functioning
> driver will be open source."
> He: "I'll have to get back to you on that."
> <<session times out>>
>
> If I hadn't had a client that had wanted me to specifically do the Intel
board
> (and release it to *BSD- way to go, Traakan!) I certainly wouldn't have
> bothered, although, as I said, I like the chip's programming model.
>
> Netgear is supposed to be very supportive with SDK's.
>
> -matt
>
>
>
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