On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Anton Ivanov wrote: > Sorry for asking the following dumb question but I could not dig out > anything reasonable from the web and the list archive. Perhaps a trivial web search would do? > Has anybody dealt with the newest Adaptec Quad Ethernet adapters (ANA > 62044 Four-Port). http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ethercard.html ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/test/starfire.c > In btw: Adaptec (nothing unusual) just quoted their web page literally > bragging about NT and Novell. So much for all the PR they got at > linux-expo. Another vendor of note: Intel finally releaead a driver for their gigabit Ethernet card, but not under the GPL. They talk the talk, but don't walk the walk. Just so it's clear to distribution builders and other vendors: the type of driver release that Intel did severely limits your ability to use the driver. It is a violation of the GPL to integrate their driver source into the kernel source tree, or provide a patch to do so. (The latter is contributory infringement.) You may not distribute pre-built kernels that link with the driver, and that includes selling a machine that can network boot using the driver. Donald Becker Scyld Computing Corporation, and USRA-CESDIS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
