From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: Network card driver problem (znb.o/tulip) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:00:23 -0800 Message-ID: <423133F7.7040400@candelatech.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, tulip-users@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com To: Kosta Todorovic In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Kosta Todorovic wrote: > My company has recently purchased several ZNYX ZX274 network cards. > These cards are Four Channel, 10/100 PCI Adapters. They use Intel chipsets. > > Unfortunately there exists no drivers for linux amd64 architecture. > There are 32bit drivers found at: > http://www.znyx.com/support/drivers/ZX374_drivers.htm but naturally > they wont compile under my amd64 system. > > The driver itself is called znb.o and can be downloaded from ZNYX's > website. I spoke to support staff there but they told me they have > discontinued support and development for this series of cards. > > The system I am running gentoo and have tried both 2.4.x and 2.6.x > kernels but no luck. > > Unfortunately there is NO 64bit drivers available for ANY platform. not even MS. > > Does anyone know of a customised znb.o driver built for amd64? > Is there any chance of anyone modifying the source code of the driver > to compile under a amd64 system? > > I've noticed that "tulip" drivers get loaded as a module at boot time. > but they dont function correctly. (lets you start the device and > attach ips but cant talk through it) > > Is there any variants of the tulip driver that will work for this? > > Help much appreciated. My personal opinion is that those NICs suck. I never did get mine to work. I'd suggest getting a DFE-570tx if you can find it, or perhaps a p430tx. You can also get 4-port GigE NICs from Intel for around $400 these days... Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com