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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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