Re: HomePNA 2.0 flamage

2001-01-08 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > I suspect homepna is dead to be honest. Apparently its competing rather well with DSL for MDU deployments (eg hotels, apartment complexes) -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROT

Re: HomePNA 2.0 flamage

2001-01-08 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 8 Jan 2001 23:54:16 + (GMT) > I suspect homepna is dead to be honest. I'm not so sure. My father-in-law just purchased a Gateway system with a HomePNA device. It was the only networking device the computer came with. It certai

Re: HomePNA 2.0 flamage

2001-01-08 Thread Alan Cox
> This doesn't seem to be the case with HomePNA 2.0 which makes me suspect > that Broadcom has a patent on some critical piece of technology. I Quite possible. Search for 'broadcom intel patent lawsuit' on google - there are other outstanding things. > can't think of any other reason how they s

HomePNA 2.0 flamage

2001-01-08 Thread Joseph Wang
I've been trying to search for a 10 Mpbs phone ethernet card that works with linux. Apparently all of the products that implement HomePNA 2.0 use the Broadcom chipset and Broadcom has been extremely non-responsive at providing chipset specifications. The situation really irks me because the who