On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Chris Bannister <cbannister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 10:18:46AM -0700, Len Ovens wrote:
> 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.
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.
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