Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

[David S. Miller]

   From: Richard Gooch <[e-mail]>
   Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 19:10:46 -0700
   
   As Wayne said:
   > There is also the D-Link DGE-550T, a 64-bit/66MHz card starting at
   > US$80 (according to pricewatch).  It apparently uses a different
   > in-kernel driver, dl2k.o.
   
   So this is a different chip from the natsemi, right?

Yes.  And from a cursory glance the dl2k.o driver seems to even
be quite portable.  I haven't tested it out myself though.

I have no idea how this thing performs, but it does look like
it has a couple of hardware bugs.