Re: The return of the ITeX PCI ADSL card for 2.6 kernels

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Mon Nov 13 2006 - 12:23:56 EST


On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:10:17 PST, Stephen Hemminger said:
> On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 01:16:29 +0100 Jan Pieter <pptp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ITeX stopped support for their PCI ADSL Apollo3 chipset because
> > they gone bankrupt. The latest Linux drivers for their chipset are
> > for kernel 2.4.15. They are binary-only.
>
> Wrong list. We don't do binary drivers....

On the other hand, if we can track down whoever got the wreckage of the
bankrupt company, they might be persuaded to cough up enough documentation
to allow writing an open driver....

Anybody know how many Apollo3-based cards were sold? Enough to make it
worth pursuing, or did ITeX go under because only 45 people bought the card,
and 43 of them have since disposed of the hardware?

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