Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver

1999-11-22 Thread Matthew Jacob
Well, I'm *almost* there getting this driver to work well (it's now *just* managing to run without barfing all over memory). It's been a humiliating experience- I'm just not that hot with Network drivers as I spend most of my time in mass storage. This chipset is, uh, interesting too (as best as

Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver

1999-10-21 Thread John Reynolds~
[ On Thursday, October 21, Matthew Jacob wrote: ] > > Big company. Usual story. Lighten up. > 'zactly ... we plebes here in the trenches do as much as we can to get the "suits" to support FreeBSD and Linux (they usually opt for the latter based solely on how many articles they read about Linux

Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver

1999-10-21 Thread John Reynolds~
[ On Thursday, October 21, Bill Paul wrote: ] > Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, John Reynolds~ > had to walk into mine and say: > > > Just in case anyone is wondering, I refuse to create BSD drivers based > soley on information from Linux drivers. I don't want any damn

Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver

1999-10-21 Thread Matthew Jacob
> Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, John Reynolds~ > had to walk into mine and say: > > > > A friend just passed this along: > > > > http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Coa6pWbKbyte0mtu > > > > Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit support for Linux. Source code too (non-GP

Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver

1999-10-21 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, John Reynolds~ had to walk into mine and say: > > A friend just passed this along: > > http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Coa6pWbKbyte0mtu > > Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit support for Linux. Source code too (non-GPL'ed very > much

Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver

1999-10-21 Thread Matthew Jacob
Odd you should mention this. I have two cards and a plea from a customer to port it... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver

1999-10-21 Thread John Reynolds~
A friend just passed this along: http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Coa6pWbKbyte0mtu Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit support for Linux. Source code too (non-GPL'ed very much like a BSD-ish license). I don't have the technicals to understand how hard it would be to port, but the code is there