-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Thanks, On 13-Oct-99 Donald Becker wrote: > 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? Not quite unless the chipset has remained the same after Adaptec changed the number. There are quite a few refs on ANA-6922A and none on ANA-620xxA. And as usually there is no product ierarchy/compatibility info on adaptec's site. > >> 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 I asked about ANA 62044 (AIC_-6915). You are referring me to ANA-6922A. Are these the same? > >> 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. > Offtopic on GB nics: I am actually quite happy with the Packet Engines hamachi its only problem being that it too often makes bugs in other hardware/software (routers, switches, etc) show up. - ---------------------------------- Anton R. Ivanov IP Engineer Level3 Communications RIPE: ARI2-RIPE E-Mail: Anton Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> @*** Yapp's Basic Fact *** If a thing cannot be fitted into something smaller than itself, some dope will do it. - ---------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBOASazylWAw/bM84zAQHnuAf+MoHaDUrvPCasYSV6ft8NV0ihxMBFKKPT bKhM/eZBy1rxbr0zhB3ViMunswz0qMHCQBqiBrFVArvqtGjC2s7PJ9bICBuib4zx iYRDlzzEUv+mv1P404S+e/P8BC4j5xyjNFXYB1G1HEd/lLpgH5Ii0BJy/MHj4HFO Y6r+D54IeJyF/u2YBN3VFUwSMGHhyimHu5fsQE3XG/YxI3I3iX/stWouVXq2EoVp NTmd5wDiy580vpUR8QjZ3goW7KmxY60SMqmCJ/feBGcEN746KW5UVDOXZ+2vKFc6 mGaiIfp2i34r3KNGy9GSoYKGbEGqotxHmTHemri80ToW8pr+7XJWzg== =7Jaj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
