Re: 8201L PHY again

Raja R Harinath <[email protected]> Tue, 03 Jun 2003 15:53:37 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.realtek.devel
Organization Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Minnesota
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

"cassiodalri" <[email protected]> writes:

> Snooping around I found this:
> http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.0-0256/ReleaseNotes_Linux_nForce_1.0-0256.html
> Pehaps it has the answer, but I didn't
> try it yet.

Given that the nForce2 chipset seems quite similar to the AMD-8111
chipset [1], maybe the amd8111e driver can be customized to handle the
nForce2 too.  (I wasn't able to get it working trivially with
"echo 10de 0066 > /sys/devices/pci/amd8111e/new_id", though).

Actually, the nForce2 MCP-T southbridge has two NICs, one is
nVidia-specific, and the other is 3COM-based.  I have a Biostar M7NCG
motherboard, which has perversely chosen to disable the 3Com NIC, and
use only the nVidia-specific NIC.

- Hari

[1] The IDE driver for nForce is shared with AMD-8111.  The I2C
    driver for nForce2 is similar to the AMD-8111 [2].  The intel8x0
    audio driver supports both AMD-8111 and nForce2.

[2] http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/cvs/browse.cgi/lm_sensors2/doc/busses/i2c-nforce2
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Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ [email protected]