[plug] Gigabit nic

[Ben Jensz]

Craig Ringer wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 18:06, Chris Caston wrote:
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>>Hello,
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>>Could anyone here please recommend a gigabit NIC that is good with 2.6?
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>Intel Gigabit NICs are rather nice - and very reliable. Probably not
>what you're after if price is a major factor, though.
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>I'd recommend looking in the 10/100/1000 driver section of 'make
>menuconfig' - if it's in there and not marked experimental, it's
>probably a reasonable bet.
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>--
>Craig Ringer
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The gigabit Broadcoms found in HP and IBM servers (available as separate 
cards as well of course) are alright as long as you use the driver from 
Broadcom's web site (the tg3 driver it uses by default is braindead).  
Its pretty easy to install.


/ Ben