Re: 3com 3c996b-t support?

[Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>]

>>>>> "Steve" == kwijibo  <kwijibo@zianet.com> writes:

Steve> http://www.cs.uni.edu/~gray/gig-over-copper/

Steve> The 3com drivers are open-source though, which makes me less
Steve> hesitent.  And the tigon3 drivers lack of documentation kind of
Steve> irks me.  I would however like to stick with a mainstream
Steve> kernel driver cause the support is there if it is needed.  I
Steve> guess I will give both versions a whirl.  From just glancing at
Steve> the source of both, it seems that both versions support jumbo
Steve> frames which is really what I am after.

Well did you look at the code? It's the infamous Broadcom bcm5700
driver which is probably the worst driver code we have seen in the
Linux community for the last 5 years. Sure you can run it, but don't
come back and complain when you run into trouble. You will be a lot
better off using the tg3 driver, or better yet, getting a NIC thats
less buggy.

Cheers,
Jes