On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:02:53AM +0100, Manfred Schwarb wrote: > meanwhile the Agere et1310 chip has grown to a quite popular network > chip, in laptops as well as for PCI-E cards. The release date of this chip was > already in June 2004, and still no support in mainline linux. > > There is apparently an opensource driver from Agere which is maintained by > volunteers at http://sourceforge.net/projects/et131x/ > > It seems some distros (e.g. Ubuntu) even patch their kernels with this driver. > > Please consider adding support for this chip in mainline linux.
The driver on the above site would need quite a bit of work to bring it up to Linux standards. That work shouldn't be difficult but enough to keep someone busy for a while. If you have the hardware I'd be happy yo guide you through the required work. Are you interested in taking up this project? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
