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GPL'ed Drivers For NVIDIA nForce Ethernet Devices

Posted by timothy on from the makes-sff-even-more-attractive dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Manfred Spraul has released a GPLed driver for the ethernet device found in motherboards based on the Nvidia Nforce/Nforce2/Nforce3 chipsets. Drivers provided by Nvidia on the other hand, are closed. Andrew Morton has integrated this driver in the 2.6.9-mm2 release of his mm tree. And if you are using a 2.4x kernel, you may want to check out this post."

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  1. Built-in-chipset devices don't "skip" the PCI bus. by Ayanami+Rei · · Score: 3, Informative

    The transactions occur across a much faster interconnect (which can go by different names according to the chipset design), but it's still linear and you still access resources in a PCI-like manner. Just faster.

    The only bus that was different was ISA.

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