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SubjectRe: NIC with polling support
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Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org> writes:

> Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE said:
>> Any suggestions which card I should use? The driver has to be open
>> source, and the card shouldn't be too expensive (i.e. in the usual
>> price range of brand 100BaseTX NICs).
>
> linux 2.4.20 supports NAPI for tg3 only. I have patches for e1000,
> 3c59x, tulip, and eepro100 at:

Thanks, the 3c59x patches are interesting, but they contain a few
_very_ discouraging comments. :-(

I might give the e100 patches a try, or borrow/buy an e1000 card--does
a "PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter" do it?

If I go the e100 route, does it matter much which chip the card is
built around? (The CPU Saver feature seems to be available only on
82558/9, and I haven't found those yet.)

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Florian Weimer Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
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