Re: Need e1000.o (Intel 1GB NIC driver) for 2.4.x

From: Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue Aug 08 2000 - 20:08:11 EST


Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Matthew> Netgear is supposed to be very supportive with SDK's.
>
> NetGear OEM's the Alteon card (so do 3Com), both Alteon and 3Com have
> been very good at providing me hardware and docs (well I got those
> from Alteon) whereas NetGear never bothered to even reply to emails.

Alteon even provide firmware source and tools to build it, so some of us
have been hacking with that too. (I got 64 byte packets both ways at
line rate on an Alteon a few days ago. Still chuffed :-)

For us, Alteon = useful, Intel = useless.

-- Jamie

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