Re: 3Comm 3CR990-TX-97 NIC

[Ion Badulescu]

On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 23:40:05 -0500, Jeff Garzik <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> There are two Linux drivers for it.  One is 3com's, a bit shoddy but Ion 
> B. did a nice job of cleaning it up.  The other is David Dillow's; DD's 
> driver looks really good, supports NAPI and all sorts of bells and whistles.
> 
> I'm currently waiting to see if DD's driver gets the stamp of approval 
> from a certain legal department.  If that doesn't come through soon, the 
> "backup plan" kicks into effect, and Ion's cleanup of 3com's driver gets 
> merged.

In the mean time, you can get my cleaned up version from
<http://www.badula.org/3c990/>. The 2.5 patch might not apply anymore
to the latest and greatest; let me know if that's indeed the case so
I can generate a new one.

> Neither driver hooks into the 2.5.x CryptoAPI, AFAIK...

Correct as far as the 3Com driver is concerned: it doesn't implement any
crypto stuff, I have no docs for it, and no free driver (OpenBSD in
particular) implements any of that stuff either.

Ion

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