Attached is forcedeth: A new driver for the ethernet interface of the
NVIDIA nForce chipset, licensed under GPL.

The driver was written without support from NVIDIA, it's the result of
a cleanroom development:
Carl-Daniel and Andrew reverse engineered the nvnet driver and wrote a
specification, Manfred wrote the driver based on the spec. Since the
driver has been available and working for a while now, Carl-Daniel
fitted some compat glue to make it compile under 2.4.

This release it intended for developers, it's alpha quality: normal
network traffic could work, although slow due to incomplete interrupt
handling. It does work on two nForce 2 systems, nForce and nForce 3
are untested.

Try it yourself, but don't complain if something breaks. Note that
the driver generates quite a lot of debug output.

Send any reports to linux-kernel or netdev@oss.sgi.com and Manfred
will scoop them up.

You also can download the patches for Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x from
http://www.hailfinger.org/carldani/linux/patches/forcedeth/


        Manfred Spraul
        Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
        Andrew de Quincey