Re: Anyone know of a mavell based dual gigE copper card
Hi Johan, I think I am good at this point... SysKonnect is sending some cards out to Brad (I believe they said) and if those get tested soon enough we are going to buy them - otherwise I am going the Intel pro 1000/MT route. There is a lot of pressure to order the box, so thats the plan as it stands now. Thanks to everyone for the help! On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:28:25 +0200 Johan P. Lindstrvm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/26/05, Bill Chmura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From what everyone told me last time, the SK stuff is good. So I can > > fit my network together with a few dual cards, trunk the smaller stuff > > together and then be on my way. Trouble is I cannot find (for the life > > of me) anything dual based on the marvell stuff. > > > > The obsd man page > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sk&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html > > > > For dual it only lists the SK-9822 SK-NET GE-T dual port, copper > > adapter, which from threads I read is now realTek chips in the newer > > revs. > > > > I've tried contacting Marvell for info on products made using them, but > > no answer yet. I've searched, prodded, poked and cursed and I still > > have not found one. > > > > Thoughts or suggestions? > > > > I appreciate the advice from the last round... I am using much of it. > > > > > > -- > > > > Bill Chmura > > > > > > > Note that I have only seen Linksys EG1032 gigabit adapters sporting > RealTek chips, rev.2 is Marvel/SysKonnect (good) and the rev.3 is > RealTek (bad/ugly) though they seem to attach after some jedi skills > by Brad. > > How ever, as the man 4 sk page says, there are many other vendors that > use the good chipset. The page also details that there is only one > known vendor of dual port copper cards with this sk chip lineup. > > Somewhere in the archives there should be refs. to the syskonnect site > (or google for it) as I cant remember the URL, you should be able to > buy them from there. > > -- JPL > -- Bill Chmura Director of Internet Technology Explosivo ITG Wolcott, CT p: 860.621.8693 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w. http://www.explosivo.com
Re: Anyone know of a mavell based dual gigE copper card
On 7/26/05, Bill Chmura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From what everyone told me last time, the SK stuff is good. So I can > fit my network together with a few dual cards, trunk the smaller stuff > together and then be on my way. Trouble is I cannot find (for the life > of me) anything dual based on the marvell stuff. > > The obsd man page > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sk&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html > > For dual it only lists the SK-9822 SK-NET GE-T dual port, copper > adapter, which from threads I read is now realTek chips in the newer > revs. > > I've tried contacting Marvell for info on products made using them, but > no answer yet. I've searched, prodded, poked and cursed and I still > have not found one. > > Thoughts or suggestions? > > I appreciate the advice from the last round... I am using much of it. > > > -- > > Bill Chmura > > Note that I have only seen Linksys EG1032 gigabit adapters sporting RealTek chips, rev.2 is Marvel/SysKonnect (good) and the rev.3 is RealTek (bad/ugly) though they seem to attach after some jedi skills by Brad. How ever, as the man 4 sk page says, there are many other vendors that use the good chipset. The page also details that there is only one known vendor of dual port copper cards with this sk chip lineup. Somewhere in the archives there should be refs. to the syskonnect site (or google for it) as I cant remember the URL, you should be able to buy them from there. -- JPL
Re: Anyone know of a mavell based dual gigE copper card
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 08:06:59PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Bill Chmura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-26 19:48]: > > For dual it only lists the SK-9822 SK-NET GE-T dual port, copper > > adapter, which from threads I read is now realTek chips in the newer > > revs. > > huh? that was linksys or dlink or netgear or one of the usual bandits. > The SysKonnect stuff was and is sk based (take a minute to guess what > sk stands for after all :) ) That was the Linksys EG1032 cards. 32-bit PCI single port cards. rev 2 uses Marvell chipset and rev 3 uses RealTek. It was even more fun fixing support for the cards since Linksys used the same PCI ID code for both cards. Thanks to Daniel Polak who got in contact with the appropriate people from SysKonnect. I will be receiving 3 newer SysKonnect cards for testing and developement sometime very soon. He managed to score some hardware too. I also had some offers from other individuals to purchase hardware. I'm very appreciative of these offers. Of course there is no point to taking these offers when I was able to get hardware from the vendor itself. I will be looking for other stuff in the future. I can always use the help of kind and helpful individuals on this list.
Re: Anyone know of a mavell based dual gigE copper card
* Bill Chmura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-26 19:48]: > For dual it only lists the SK-9822 SK-NET GE-T dual port, copper > adapter, which from threads I read is now realTek chips in the newer > revs. huh? that was linksys or dlink or netgear or one of the usual bandits. The SysKonnect stuff was and is sk based (take a minute to guess what sk stands for after all :) ) -- BS Web Services, http://www.bsws.de/ OpenBSD-based Webhosting, Mail Services, Managed Servers, ... Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)