5 Sep
2012
5 Sep
'12
7:13 p.m.
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Chris Bannister <cbannister(a)slingshot.co.nz
wrote:
On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 10:18:46AM -0700, Len Ovens
wrote:
not so much these days. most companies that make NICs now have their own
engineer or three dedicated to keeping the Linux driver for their chipset
in good shape. no real choice if you want to sell into the server market
and not face bad press about your hardware.
It does happen. ethernet cards used to only come
with windows drivers...
then all of a sudden they started to come with Linux drivers... when is
the last time you found a NIC without Linux support?
Do they come with Linux drivers on CD with the card? My experience is
that the drivers are bundled with the kernel and someone has done a lot
of reverse engineering to get a functional FOSS driver.