Marvell Yukon NIC's - Update ?

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Has anyone had success with Marvell Yukon PCI-E NIC’s yet ?

Namely Marvell 8001 and Marvell 8053 chipsets. (I think they all use the sk98lin driver)

2.8.x did not work whatsoever.

We last tried with a very early revision of 2.9 and the Marvell NIC’s ‘sort of’ worked. Really weird low level driver problems as I recall, and the hardware negotiation needed to be manually ‘forced’ every reboot (with a script).

We are now using more and more of these brilliant x86 platforms: http://www.anewtech.net/products_sub.php?parentCategory=14.
(many newer PCI-E models contain the above Marvell NIC’s)

Absolutely incredible hardware by the way… But for now we are sticking to the slightly earlier models with Intel GB NIC’s only.

Just wondering if anyone can confirm if Marvell NICs are now stable with 2.9.12 + ?

Thanks in advance

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Try 2.9.14, i dont have any of these cards to test personally but this looks intresting from the change log

*) fixed some ethernet card autonegotiation/speed/duplex settings;