David Abrahams wrote:
Could you give more details? If I have to complain to the person who sold me the hardware (knowing I'd be running linux on it), I want to be able to justify myself.
the forcedeth driver is reverse engineering, much like the nv driver versus the nvidia binary driver. I think you could get the nvidia binary drivers to work with the nvidia nforce chipset/nic, but am certain thats not going to play nice with xen (at least not until xen becomes a subarch). we have had crazy issues with forcedeth cards - like lockups where the card stops tx/rxing data completely, and only way to fix it is to pull the power cord, a reboot doesn't fix it. its related to acpi stuff mostly. also the driver is slow to get link, which causes problems for init scripts and it generally crap, not supporting features I like to use like ethtool or mii-registers. I don't doubt for a second its going to get better, reverse engineering is always a work in progress, so maybe its just a matter of time. But frankly, if nvidia just damn opensourced decent drivers it would be a whole lot better. Its a freaking network card for crying out loud (although I know is all integrated in the chipset - probably to reduce the cost). the better tyan mobos have broadcom nics in them, and AMD chipsets, all very well supported.
dave -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server
