Marvell 88E8053, sky2, and netdev

[Rob Andrews]

On 01-Dec-2005 10:56.49 (GMT), Nathan Grennan wrote:
 >   I have a MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum motherboard. It includes a Marvell
 > 88E8053 ethernet controller. From what I see online it seems the right
 > driver is the sky2 driver. I see hints that it was in the netdev.2
 > package, but seems to be missing from the netdev.3 package. Has it been
 > removed from netdev? Is it too unstable? Will it be coming back? Is
 > there an alternative?

It's possible that it *is* covered by the sk98lin driver, but not the
in-kernel tree. SysKonnect have a more recent sk98lin available from
their site than that in the kernel. It supports the Marvell PCI-E
gigabit interface I have, at least (whereas skge & in-kernel sk98lin do
not).

I do note that sk98lin is not being built in the rawhide kernel package
(I don't have an FC4 box to hand so I can't tell if it's being built for
that), but skge is. It could be a small matter of adding the PCI IDs to
the skge driver to get it working. I'll try it once I have a spare moment.

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rob andrews                                            rob at choralone.org