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Re: Marvell Yukon device (MSI K8N Neo4)



On Friday 20 May 2005 13:39, Per Lundberg wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 10:57 -0700, David Liontooth wrote:
> > >Update: I now checked with lspci and this is the only ethernet card
> > > being listed:
> > >
> > >0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.: Unknown
> > > device 4362 (rev 15) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.:
> > > Unknown device 058c Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 12
> > >        Memory at fe600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
> > >        I/O ports at be00 [size=256]
> > >        Capabilities: <available only to root>
> > >
> > >I run this network adapter with forcedeth. The other network adapter
> > >is thus not even listed in the lspci output, which is probably the
> > > reason why it is not detected by neither forcedeth or sk98lin...
>
> [...]
>
> > And BTW, I seriously doubt you're really running your Marvell Yukon with
> > a forcedeth driver.
>
> You've got that right, I was totally wrong. The nVidia Ethernet Adapter
> is being detected by the forcedeth driver, whereas the Yukon is the one
> in the lspci output (which is not detected by sk98lin in my stock Debian
> 2.6.11).
>
> So, the device listed above is what I would like to have working with
> Linux. Any ideas?
> --
> Best regards,
> Per Lundberg

Is this one of those horrible cheapo cards that needs to have some firmware 
uploaded on boot-up?

You can bet the firmware itself won't be DFSG compliant, but it's almost 
certainly a statutory fair use exemption under copyright law to make a copy 
for the purpose of using a piece of hardware which you rightfully own and 
which won't work without it.  {I'm assuming the carton in which it arrived 
was labelled "Network adaptor" and not "Ornament".}  Anyway, it's not like 
your copy is costing them sales .....  if anything, it's encouraging more 
sales.

Then it's just a case of extracting the firmware from the Windows driver CD, 
and hacking up some existing firmware uploader with the correct addresses.

-- 
AJS
deb64 at earthshod dot co dot uk
* made without god *



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