Greg Morgan wrote: > > Brad Fritz wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:29:47 MST Greg Morgan wrote: > > > > > >>Stefan Engel wrote: > >> > >><snip> > >> > >>>Is there anybody out there who has the e1000.o module for > >>>Bering 1.0 rc4 already built? Or do I have to do it on my own? > >> > >>Finally, as I just posted in another message on this > >>thread, a software license question needs to be resolved about > >>distribution of the compiled module. > > > > > > Looks like the source at > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/ is GPLed. The LICENSE > > file in e1000-4.3.15.tar.gz says so anyhow: > > > > brad@lab:~$ head -n5 /tmp/e1000-4.3.15/LICENSE > > > > "This software program is licensed subject to the GNU General Public License > > (GPL). Version 2, June 1991, available at > > <http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html>" > > > > there is a GPL license header in all the source files as well. > >
If you download the e1000 sources directly from Intel's website (as I did yesterday) you will get exactly the same sources as from sourceforge. http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Detail_Desc.asp?strState=LIVE&ProductID=749&DwnldID=2897 Sorry, but I don't know why I haven't looked somewhat closer at this archive. > > Oh. I was looking at > ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/2897/ENG/e1000.txt. > "This driver is only supported as a loadable module at this time. Intel > is not > supplying patches against the kernel source to allow for static linking of > the driver. For questions related to hardware requirements, refer to the > documentation supplied with your Intel PRO/1000 adapter. All hardware > requirements listed apply to use with Linux." > > In times past I looked at the work Donald Becker did on gigabit cards. > The scyld.com site always said to find your e1000 driver at Intel.com > because Intel had written it. > http://www.scyld.com/network/index.html#gigabit > "* Contact Intel directly for the Linux driver for their gigabit card. > They have a non-GPL driver. Because of the license conflict this driver > may not be pre-linked or pre-patched into the Linux kernel." That's why I got the drivers directly from Intel. > > > Disclaimer: IANAL and I may be overlooking licensing and > > distribution issues here. > > No I think you have found a new source of gpled e1000 drivers. > > Greg Morgan Thanks for the pointer to sourceforge and the suggestions to try to use the module from one of our installations. I will post a message whether this has been successful or not. Regards, Stefan ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
