From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270828AbTG0P4j (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 11:56:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270829AbTG0P4j (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 11:56:39 -0400 Received: from galaxy.lunarpages.com ([64.235.234.165]:52422 "EHLO galaxy.lunarpages.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270828AbTG0P4i (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 11:56:38 -0400 Message-ID: <3F23FD97.60207@genebrew.com> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:28:07 -0400 From: Rahul Karnik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030706 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Andrew de Quincey , Marcelo Penna Guerra , lkml , Laurens , Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvidia nforce 1.0-261 nvnet for kernel 2.5 References: <200307262309.20074.adq_dvb@lidskialf.net> <200307271301.41660.adq_dvb@lidskialf.net> <3F23DB4E.1000203@genebrew.com> <200307271514.00724.adq_dvb@lidskialf.net> <3F23E538.6010900@genebrew.com> <1059320761.13190.9.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1059320761.13190.9.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - galaxy.lunarpages.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - genebrew.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > On Sul, 2003-07-27 at 15:44, Rahul Karnik wrote: > >>Dunno. Look in the list archives for earlier discussions on the topic. >>It seems AMD audio is a clone of Intel audio, which is why Intel audio >>works for NForce. Since both audio and ethernet match, it seems unlikely s/ethernet/IDE, oops. >>that Nvidia would license a completely different ethernet chip, but who >>knows? > > > AMD's older network component is the AMD PCnet32, which is a very > different chip. Yes we tried that as well, with no success. See: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105831948827945&w=2 As far as I can tell, NForce is based on AMD8111, at least for IDE and sound. Unfortunately, ethernet is a no-go so far with amd8111e. Thanks, Rahul -- Rahul Karnik rahul@genebrew.com