Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

David S. Miller
2002-03-11T02:19:25Z

From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 19:10:46 -0700

As Wayne said:
> There is also the D-Link DGE-550T, a 64-bit/66MHz card starting at
> US$80 (according to pricewatch). It apparently uses a different
> in-kernel driver, dl2k.o.

So this is a different chip from the natsemi, right?

Yes. And from a cursory glance the dl2k.o driver seems to even
be quite portable. I haven't tested it out myself though.

I have no idea how this thing performs, but it does look like
it has a couple of hardware bugs.