Subject: Re: Marvell ethernet card
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 12/05/2005 05:29:57
In article <20051203215137.GH25809@quartz.itdept.newn.cam.ac.uk>,
	Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> Having managed to netboot this laptop, I made an unfortunate discovery:
> its network card isn't supported..
> http://user-contributions.org/projects/lshwd/tables/pcitable suggests that
> it is a (0x11ab,0x4362) "Marvell Technology Group Ltd.|Marvell Yukon
> 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter"
> 
> Rapid googling shows an attempt at using sk(4), and no source code drivers
> nor documentation from Marvell. Any ideas on where to start?

OpenBSD's sk(4) driver supports this variant. As NetBSD's driver is based
on OpenBSD's one (which is based on FreeBSD's one) it shouldn't be
difficult to pull that change to NetBSD.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/