HI,

Rich Teer wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Brian McCrary wrote:
>
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>
> Ah yes, the skge drivers. I was thinking of those, but couldn't remember
> what they were called. What about the Intel GBE card?
>
>
>>I don't see how you are going to find any card that has a Sun OBP to
>>support network booting on it that also is going to work in a x86 system
>>as I would think it would have to have different ROMs.
>
>
C'mon, Intel you are yoking

Have I ever mentioned when I was working for a huge company(the biggest
in its domain) and was about to design a GbE adapter(at that time there
where only two out, Sun and Alteon). Intel just bought Level One which
has a GbE chip ready and stopped it, Intel had their first chip 82543
out and we ask for drivers, fine they said after a few weeks they came
back and said that where not allowed to supply drivers to non Intel
arch, any OS aslong as it was a x86, they even had for Solaris x86 then
and Linux but now Alpha or Sparc.

So much for "we are in the network group not the CPU group"!

/michael