Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gigabit Ethernet cards

[Lamar Owen]

On Thursday, July 08, 2010 12:01:53 pm Marcus D. Leech wrote:
> I have a PCIe x16 slot on the mobo, it's a GigaByte GA-880GM-UD2H, so I
> guess what I really need is a
>   PCIe GiGE card.

Broadcom is the biggest player in this market; eBay item # 150455393659 is one 
such example and only needs a x1 PCI-e slot.  The BCM57xx drivers are in-kernel 
and fairly robust.  This is the chip used by my laptop:

09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit 
Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 01c8
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 30
        Memory at dcef0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Expansion ROM at <ignored> [disabled]
        Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [58] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
        Kernel driver in use: tg3
        Kernel modules: tg3

There's also an HP NC110T on eBay ( item # 140423322343 ).  This card uses the  
Intel 82572G1 chipset, and it is a server-type adapter.  The eBay one is 
actually more expensive than one I found online a few minutes ago NIB, so 
google for it.