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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Broadcom drivers, yet again
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:55:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fd1166c4f29ca2e461d9e30229e1e13b@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D32D41D6-7DDA-48AA-BBE0-6CA34977FA72@mac.com>

> Maybe someone could retrofit this?
> 
> http://mailman.3ti.be/pipermail/clusterknoppix/2003-September/ 
> 000084.html
> Direct link: http://mailman.3ti.be/pipermail/clusterknoppix/ 
> attachments/20030923/8ebb3ddf/bcm4400-1.0.1.tar.obj

i'm not going to do that.  especially for a product that i've
got to stand behind.

i've written drivers for hardware with linux source and no specs.
although that particular hardware was beautifully designed, and
i had full vendor support, it was still pretty difficult without proper
documentation.

from what i understand, the broadcom chips are quirky and have
a long list of errata.  i'm not good enough at guessing what
sweet bits i need to put where to keep a moody thing like that
happy.

sorry.

if you have a desktop motherboard with 1x pcie available,
i'd personally recommend the intel pro 1000/PT.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2276643&CatId=200
they're about $34.  i have two of them in my cpu server at
home.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-21 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-21 12:33 Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-21 12:44 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-21 13:34   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-21 13:55     ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-10-21 14:03   ` Steve Simon
2007-10-21 14:06     ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-21 14:24       ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-21 14:30         ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-21 14:35           ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-21 15:51       ` Jack Johnson
2007-10-22  7:32         ` Philippe Anel
2007-10-22 14:10           ` Jack Johnson
2007-10-22 14:23             ` ron minnich
2007-10-22 14:45               ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-22 14:41             ` Philippe Anel
2007-10-22 14:59               ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-22 15:04                 ` Philippe Anel
2007-10-24 10:41                 ` Richard Miller
2007-10-24 12:32                   ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-24 13:27                     ` Philippe Anel
2007-10-26  8:34                     ` Richard Miller

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