Re: sun + gigabit nic

Joel Jaeggli (joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu)
Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:25:15 -0700 (PDT)


On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 kernel@ddx.a2000.nu wrote:

>
> On 8 Oct 2001, Thomas Duffy wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 09:44, kernel@ddx.a2000.nu wrote:
> >
> > > so will the netgear gigabit adapter work with the ultrasparc linux kernel
> > > ?
> > > (the netgear ga622t ?)

the 620t is the netgear gig-card based on the acenic, it' optical, sx or
lx.

> > this is netgear's gige over copper card. it does not use the acenic
> > chip. instead it uses the national semiconductor 83820 chip and a
> > different driver. this driver did not go into the kernel until ~2.4.10
> > (ns83820.c) and does not work under sparc64 so far -- it seems to
>
> so any gigabit copper cards that DO work under sparc64 ?
> i looked at the intel source (on support.intel.com)
> but it gives me some errors when i try to compile it on sparc
>
> what about the 3Com 3C996-T ? (which has also drivers for linux on the
> support page)
>
>

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