Re: Marvell Yukon gigabit cards

Timothy Legge wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 08:22, Todd Shoemaker wrote:
> 
>>Hello all,
>>
>>I have a few Linksys EG1032 v2 gigabit cards that have no way to network
>>boot, and so I don't have much use for them without Etherboot support.
>>I looked at the prospect of writing a driver myself, but after walking
>>through the dev docs I realized I would need a good bit of time to spin
>>up on writing the driver (any driver).  
>>
>>However, I would happily donate and mail a shrink-wrapped EG1032 card to
>>anyone (hopefully more knowledgeable than me) who would like to create
>>an Etherboot driver for this chipset (Marvel Yukon 88E80XX chipset,
>>supported well by the sk98lin 2.6 kernel driver).  There are a good
>>number of these cards around, and I think good Etherboot support would
>>be an asset.  You can keep the card afterward, of course.  :)
> 
> 
> Todd
> 
> Normally I would jump at the chance to write the driver.  However at the
> moment I am just able to keep up with email and try to catch up on
> sleep.  I already have two yukon based nics so maybe when my new son
> gets me on a schedule I might be able to get a little work done. ;-)

Has there been any progress with this etherboot driver?

Thanks

James Pearson



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