Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 16:58:15 -0500 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Asus EEE PC Message-ID: <20080102215815.GA46732@sandvine.com> In-Reply-To: <flgvhf$iqk$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <flgu86$e77$1@ger.gmane.org> <b1fa29170801021312w4bf450d5w8b4b39d99753cdee@mail.gmail.com> <flgvhf$iqk$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:26:06PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > Kip Macy wrote: > > Do you know what network chip it uses? > > Not exactly, but apparently it's very well supported under Linux and > Windows since Google doesn't find anything useful on the topic. > > I found this in the Linux drivers' source code: > > * Copyright(c) 2007 Atheros Corporation. All rights reserved. > * Copyright(c) 2006 xiong huang <xiong.huang@atheros.com> > * > * Derived from Intel e1000 driver > * Copyright(c) 1999 - 2005 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. The chip is an Atheros (formerly Attansic) L2. Even though it claims to be derived from the e1000 driver, I believe they just used it as a reference on writing Linux device drivers; I don't think it's really related to the e1000 hardware at all. -Ed
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