Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Sun Mar 10 2002 - 21:15:51 EST


   From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
   Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 19:10:46 -0700
   
   As Wayne said:
> There is also the D-Link DGE-550T, a 64-bit/66MHz card starting at
> US$80 (according to pricewatch). It apparently uses a different
> in-kernel driver, dl2k.o.
   
   So this is a different chip from the natsemi, right?

Yes. And from a cursory glance the dl2k.o driver seems to even
be quite portable. I haven't tested it out myself though.

I have no idea how this thing performs, but it does look like
it has a couple of hardware bugs.
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