Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:01:37 -0700 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller |
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On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:15:47 -0700 (PDT) Kevin E <kevin360@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Someone wrote me with a solution to try and so far > it's working. They suggested I try the driver up on > Marvell's website but to make sure I powered off the > machine completely and when it rebooted to not have > any of the regular kernel drivers for the Marvell > chipset to load. They had found that letting the sky2 > load and then unloading the module would mean the > vendor's driver wouldn't work. > > So I got down the latest driver package they have > (10.0.5.3). At first I couldn't get it compiled > against kernel 2.6.22.3 that I'm running, but I have > it compiled with the 2.6.21.5 kernel, which is what > the machine is running now. And I'm happy to say that > it's working fine so far. I've transfered about 4G > over the link and it's still working fine. > > Since Marvell's driver seems to be working for the > 88E8056 chipset and from what I've looked at the code > it's marked as GPL, could it be rolled into the kernel > for those of us that have 88E8056 chipsets that are > working to use? >
Submit for code review, and cleanup the resulting comments. Good luck.
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