On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:10:20PM +0200, Thomas Michael Wanka wrote:

 > according to a discussion on the Linux Acenic Driver list the GA622 
 > cannot be used with the Tigon drivers. NS homepage has only one 
 > gigabit chip listed, look at 
 > "http://www.national.com/pf/DP/DP83861.html".

I am currently working on a driver for the National Semiconductor DP83820
Gigabit Ethernet (the DP83861 is the PHY part, wich I am also writing
a driver for, but is not 100% necessary in order to support the Gig-E
function of the MAC).

The neat thing about the DP83820 is that it is *VERY* similar to the
DP83815, the chip that is present in the NetGear FA-311 and FA-312
10/100 Ethernet cards.  The DP83815 is already supported by the `sip'
driver.  My driver for Gig-E version, gsip, uses the same source file
as the `sip' driver (although it is a separate object file; the chips
have a couple of differences that makes it impossible to efficiently
share the same object file).  Anyway, I started working on it yesterday
(someone sent me an Asante FriendlyNet GigaNIX card, that also has
this chip on it), and I figure I'll have something ready to commit by
this evening.

gsip0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0: NatSemi DP83820 Gigabit Ethernet
gsip0: interrupting at irq 9
gsip0: Ethernet address 00:50:fc:2c:b4:da
ukphy0 at gsip0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
ukphy0: OUI 0x1000e8, model 0x0006, rev. 0
ukphy0: 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto

How much do the NetGear cards cost?  The Asante card apparently costs
around $149 (geez, gone are the days when you paid $250 for a 10base2
card!!).

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