Nforce3 250 NIC

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 09:10:45PM -0500, rob at willenbergs.com wrote:

> Since I haven't been able to install on my amd64 yet, I thought I'd try to
> kill a second bird and see if forcedeth support for Nvidia giganic's was
> available. There's a patch for the forcedeth driver that needs to be
> applied for the Nvidia gigabit NIC on NForce3-250 chipsets to function
> properly. The patches are available here:
> 
> http://www.hailfinger.org/carldani/linux/patches/forcedeth/

Does the card not work at all without this patch?  The web page seems to
imply that it is only needed for gigabit support.

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 - mdz