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At 12:48 PM 01/25/2001, David Greenman wrote:
> >>    I don't know what list you are looking at, but the download list that
> >> I was
> >>looking at did not include SCO, Unixware or any other Unix variant except
> >>Linux.
> >
> >This is the list.
> >
> >NDIS2, NDIS3, NDIS4 and NDIS5 drivers
> >                              Novell Netware* Client 3.11, 3.12
> >                              Novell Netware Server 4.1x, 5
> >                              SunSoft Solaris*
> >                              SCO Unix 3, 5
> >                              SCO UnixWare* 2, 7, OpenDesktop*, OpenServer*
> >
> >These are "licensed" drivers. The linux driver is free.
>
>    How do you know that the above drivers are developed by Intel? The above
>could easily be OS vendor supplied. It's anybody's guess without the source.

I dont know that the linux driver is actually maintained by intel either. 
But I doubt that intel would license a driver that they dont support. It 
seems unlikely that intel would write their own driver for linux (when one 
was available) and not for other OS's. Part of selling a hardware only 
solution is having a working driver for the major OSs.

Whether they are developed by intel or not it not relevant. Only that they 
are kept up to date by intel or verified to be up to date is what is 
important.

DB



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