Inspiron 1525 Hardware

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 03:06:42PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:54:23PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>  > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:34:55PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
>  > > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:22:32PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>  > >  > The http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/msk/msk.88E8040.patch patch for 
>  > >  > the 88E8040 simply doesn't work.  It is not because of lack of testing 
>  > >  > (which I have performed for Pyun who wrote the patch), but apparently 
>  > >  > because of lack of reliable documentation.  There is a driver for 
>  > > 
>  > > Another problem is lack of hardware. 88E8040 seems to be intialized
>  > > after applying the patch but link establishment seem to fail. :-(
> 
>  > I can purchase and send you a Marvel 88E8040 NIC, assuming we can find a
>  > PCI or PCIe card somewhere that uses one.  Otherwise, I could purchase a
>  > motherboard which uses the IC and send that to you.
>  > 
> 
> I failed to find a standalone PCI/PCIe NIC based on 88E8040
> controller in local store.

I'll look around, and if I can't find anything, contact Marvell asking
which of their clients use their 88E8040 in standalone PCI/PCIe NICs.

If push comes to shove, I'll pick up a motherboard that has the 88E8040
on it and ship it to you free of cost.

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
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