Ken Lee wrote: > Hi Auke, > > Could you point me the link where I can download the reference driver? I > searched the mailing list using "bypass" as the keyword but none of the 18 > hits > pointed me to that.
I can't find this either. All I know is when I worked for the LAN group that these adapters were shipped with a cd-rom with a prototype driver source to customers so that they could develop their own drivers. I don't have any such cd's myself nor would I have access to that now that I don't work in the LAN group anymore. Unfortunately I can only eyeball my friendly former colleagues and see if they can come up with a download location for this prototype (testing) driver. And even if you get that driver, it's pretty much guaranteed to not work anymore with recent kernel versions. The only document I can reference you to that is readily available is the e1000 SDM's on e1000.sf.net. YMMV. >>> These (development) adapters were never sold for the general market > That is interesting. If you google around, you see many places selling this > product as today. When I ordered it last week, I didn't get the impression > that > the adapters were not meant for the general market. Who sold this adapter to you? Have you asked them for documentation? here's the product brief: http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/prodbrf/313394.pdf Please note the wording for the driver support: "OS Suport: - Linux* and FreeBSD* OS support reference drivers" AFAICR this "reference" driver worked. somewhat. But was far from stable and definately not ready for production environments :) Cheers, Auke > > Ken > > > -----Original Message----- From: Kok, Auke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:24 PM To: Ken Lee Cc: Allan, Bruce W; > e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] questions about > Intel e1000 Drivers > > Allan, Bruce W wrote: >> Hi Ken, >> >> I'm not familiar with the string "PT Quad Port Bypass Server Adapter" but I > > These (development) adapters were never sold for the general market and there > is no support available in the e1000/e1000e linux drivers, nor will that > likely > be ever added. > > A special prototype driver source can be downloaded from the intel.com website > as far as I can remember (in an SDK kit). The mailing list history might have > a > reference to that. > > Cheers, > > Auke ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
