Subject: Re: Driver support for Intel 82546EB GigE PCI controller ?
To: Ross Patterson <Ross.Patterson@CatchFS.Com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/26/2002 12:04:44
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:57:43PM -0500, Ross Patterson wrote:

 > The pull-up to 1.6 happened on 8 November 2002.  Now I have to ask, how has 
 > experience been with this driver?  I've got a vendor spec'ing a SuperMicro 
 > P4DPE-G2 motherboard and Intel's PRO/1000 MT dual-port adapters, both of 
 > which use the 82546EB chips.  The diffs atop 1.6 look pretty straightforward, 
 > and I'm not interested in being on the -current bleeding edge for these 
 > systems, so I'm looking at a 1.6_RELEASE + patches configuration here.

Works great -- I've used it on several SuperMicro systems w/ integrated
i82546EB Ethernet, as well as with Intel's dual-port adapter cards.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>