Juergen Northe wrote: > Hi Brent, > it is just two postings ago, when I demonstrated, that there is a eager > demand for recent NIC drivers. > >> In my opinion the drivers which comes with the 3.1.1xx >> require an update/upgrade for new popular nics, >> since there a often requests for the same drivers. > > My advice is: do not use rare brands. Take a look at the"Intel Pro/1000 PT > Dual Port" network card. I suppose that you need at least two ports ;-) > I can send you the working e1000e driver, which I kindly received from Adam. > > Juergen Northe >
Juergen- I saw the posts related to you getting the e1000e driver. This is why I posted looking for a NIC that already had support. I didn't want to make work for anyone in this fine community. I don't subscribe to leaf-devel, so I didn't know if any PCI-Express NICs were already supported. I was just looking for more information before I make a hardware purchase. I agree with the philosophy of trying to use mainstream hardware. I try to do so. It usually makes supporting the hardware much easier. I'm probably going to buy some of the dual-port Intel NICS. If you would send a copy of that driver my way I would really appreciate it. Developers- What does it take to get a driver included in the modules tarball? Will this driver that Adam produced be included in the future? I've read through some postings and the online documentation related to setting up the buildtool environment so I can compile my own drivers. I don't have a lot of experience with compiling things that haven't been pre-packaged, so the process looks fairly intimidating. I'd love to produce some drivers and submit them to the community but it would probably take a month or more with my inexperience, and I don't have the cards to test against. Brent Gardner ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
