From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261545AbUKWTew (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:34:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261519AbUKWTc4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:32:56 -0500 Received: from ns1.lanforge.com ([66.165.47.210]:37610 "EHLO www.lanforge.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261504AbUKWTcQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:32:16 -0500 Message-ID: <41A3903D.3060208@candelatech.com> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:32:13 -0800 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin Piszcz CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Drivers For Multi-Port Nic Question References: <41A37AF0.3000207@candelatech.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Justin Piszcz wrote: > The manufacturer and model of this ethernet card is: > > An Adaptec ANA-6944A/TX NIC 10/100 Quad-port Ethernet Card. I had one of those once..never got it to work. If you can get a new card, I'd suggest a p430tx or a 4-port Intel pro/1000 GigE NIC. (The latter is 'only' $400 or so.) If you can find an old DFE 570tx Dlink 4-port NIC those work good too..but are discontinued for several years now. Be careful about cheap Intel pro/100 4-port NICs..there are some that will not negotiate link correctly. Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com