Unix Support For HPNA 2.0?

spell_caster asks: "I have an HPNA 2.0 network at home (10M LAN over ordinary phone lines). I am experimenting with Linux, but I can't find any drivers for HPNA 2.0. Is anyone working on this? Has anyone else tried the HPNA cards?" For those of you searching for this type of support, there might be some good news for you.

Here's a helpful post from the Linux-Hardware Digest #870:

From: Mark Darby mdarby@lucent.com
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Phone line networking
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 12:06:52 -0400

       The pcnet32 module that comes with the 2.2.13 kernel appears to
 support any 1Mbps phoneline (HPNA) card that is made with the AMD
 PCNet-Home controller.  Most of the 1Mbps cards on the market appear
 to be made with the AMD chip, although Intel has their version of
 1Mbps HPNA with the AnyPoint product line.  Their controller is the
 21145. So far, I haven't seen any "freely" available Linux drivers
 that support the Intel variant.

       FYI, RedHat created a driver module (called pcnethme) which
 supports AMD-based HPNA cards for RedHat 6.0. It's on their Web site.

       For 10Mbps HPNA, all cards are made with the Broadcom iLine10
 controller chip so far.  Broadcom doesn't freely distribute any
 drivers for cards based on their controller, but they claim they
 provide drivers for vendors who build cards with their chip. Again, I
 haven't seen any 10Mbps HPNA card vendor provide a Linux driver yet.

       I play with LRP (Linux Router Project - www.linuxrouter.org),
 and I've successfully used some AMD-based cards to create a gateway
 for my home. I have a Web page (

www.iop.com/~intutor/lrprg/index.html ) which documents my tinkering thus far, if you're interested...... Mark Darby mdarby@lucent.com (work) intutor@iop.com (home)

So there looks like there may be some small support out there. Have others experimented with HPNA with Unix?