Re: NForce Chipset support in which kernels?

Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:12:37 +0100


On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:31:30AM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:47:32PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 15:24, Matthew D. Pitts wrote:
> > > Unless you get the drivers from nVIDIA website.
> >
> > Which are binary only. So its still best avoided
>
> For someone with far too much time on their hands, the
> 20KB binary object (complete with symbols) shouldn't be
> too much work to reverse engineer 8)
>
> Although Jeff seems to be think that the chip is a clone
> of another existing NIC, so it may not be worth the effort
> if $driver can be made to work with it by adding some IDs..

Well, the IDE part in nForce certainly is a clone of another IDE, so
it's likely the NIC is as well. An idea comes to mind which one it could
be ...

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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