Call for testers: NatSemi DP83821 gigE driver

2001-05-08 Thread Bill Paul
Thanks to the nice people at SMC, I finally got my hands on a couple of gigE NICs and have a preliminary driver available for one of them. The if_nge driver supports the NatSemi DP83820 gigabit ethernet MAC, which is used on the EZ Card 1000 (SMC9462TX), the D-Link DFE-500T, the Asante

Re: Call for testers: NatSemi DP83821 gigE driver

2001-05-08 Thread scanner
Is there a POC we can all send thanks to for supplying the neccessary HW and doco? Since they seem to be a more friendly company then Intel it would do us well IMO to thank them for it. = -Chris Watson (316)

Re: Call for testers: NatSemi DP83821 gigE driver

2001-05-08 Thread Bill Paul
Is there a POC we can all send thanks to for supplying the neccessary HW and doco? Since they seem to be a more friendly company then Intel it would do us well IMO to thank them for it. Actually, it was my contact at Intel who put me in touch with the right people at SMC. As for the

Re: Call for testers: NatSemi DP83821 gigE driver

2001-05-08 Thread scanner
Actually, it was my contact at Intel who put me in touch with the right people at SMC. As for the documentation, National has all the manuals for their stuff online: That said, Intel also agreed to let D-Link release the LXT1001 manual to me, so I have that too. Both D-Link and SMC sell

Re: Call for testers: NatSemi DP83821 gigE driver

2001-05-08 Thread Doug Russell
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Bill Paul wrote: I sent a confirmation of receipt and thank you note to the SMC people today. I'm not sure if I should be posting their e-mail addresses all over the lists though. Perhaps in this type of situation, someone needs to simply collate a list of

Re: Call for testers: NatSemi DP83821 gigE driver

2001-05-08 Thread Bill Paul
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Bill Paul wrote: I sent a confirmation of receipt and thank you note to the SMC people today. I'm not sure if I should be posting their e-mail addresses all over the lists though. Perhaps in this type of situation, someone needs to simply collate a list of