Hello, On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:13:48PM -0800, Aaron Edsinger wrote: > We're also very interested in getting a RTL8168 driver working but > don't have the skill set in-house. We've looked around to contract the > work out but with no luck yet (we have only modest resources). I'm > wondering if anyone on the list: > > a) is willing to pool resources to fund the work > b) would be willing to do the work given a fee > > Of course we would contribute the results to the Etherlab package. > Florian, do you have an estimate for how long it would take a skilled > device coder to do this work?
this is the r8169 driver, isn't it? It indeed a very attractive driver to support, because the Realtek Gigabit chipsets are used in many embedded PCs and panel PCs I know. This list of supported chips is wide-spread: PCI: RTL8169 RTL8169s RTL8110s RTL8169sb/8110sb RTL8169sc/8110sc RTL8169sc/8110sc PCIe: RTL8168b/8111b RTL8168b/8111b RTL8101e RTL8100e RTL8100e RTL8168b/8111b RTL8101e RTL8168cp/8111cp RTL8168c/8111c RTL8168c/8111c I just looked into the code and it seems not as complicated as the Intel drivers. I would estimate 1-2 days for getting a driver to work and another day for testing and porting it to different kernel versions. I'll speak to my boss if we can perhaps participate with development... -- Best regards, Florian http://etherlab.org _______________________________________________ etherlab-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.etherlab.org/mailman/listinfo/etherlab-users
