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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:03:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
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Subject: Re: Gigabit Intel NIC? - Intel Gigabit Ethernet Pro/1000T
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Matthew Dharm wrote:

> I know, jumping in at this late-stage is bad form... but if we're talking
> about the Intel 82543GC Gigabit MAC, why doesn't someone just use the
> FreeBSD if_wx.c driver as a starting point?
>
> It took me a while to find, as they refer to it as the LIVENGOOD instead of
> the 82543, but the PCI ProductID values seem to match...
>
> Matt

Let me stir the pot a bit and report that the Intel driver folks (yes, they
*do* have them) claim to have a driver that blows the doors off of wx. I told
them that with their access to docs and to actual chip engineers that if it
*didn't* do so, they really were in sad shape.

-matt