2.6 and Marvell/SysKonnect Ethernet controller

Lately I've been posting my tale of woe in my attempts to get 2.6
running on a new box with a Marvell 88E8053 Gigabit LAN controller.
After beating my head against many a wall, plus a bit of help and
moral support (thanks, Dean!) I finally tracked down a new driver
that makes everything right.

Take a look at

http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/DV/Staff/Le...inux_p5gd1.htm

The author describes his own trials and tribulations, and
points to a new driver for 2.6 at

http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect...ver/zip/linux/

The latest version there is install-8_28.tar.bz2 - once I
downloaded and installed this driver, everything magically
started working. I could probably even find drivers to make
the box boot from its SATA disk, but for now I've stuck in a
spare 4GB IDE drive for it to boot from, after which it can
mount the SATA drive.

So I guess the moral of the story is that if you're using
new hardware, make sure you dig up the latest drivers too.
Google is your friend.

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On 30 Dec 05 23:57:32 -0800 "Charlie Gibbs" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Lately I've been posting my tale of woe in my attempts to get 2.6
> running on a new box with a Marvell 88E8053 Gigabit LAN controller.
> After beating my head against many a wall, plus a bit of help and
> moral support (thanks, Dean!) I finally tracked down a new driver
> that makes everything right.

How very odd. I've had that Marvell controller working for months
on about 10 different distros.

[snip]
> started working. I could probably even find drivers to make
> the box boot from its SATA disk, but for now I've stuck in a
> spare 4GB IDE drive for it to boot from, after which it can
> mount the SATA drive.

I'll just say I've been running on SATA for months also. Can
you throw out your box's specs and the distro you're running on.

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