GPL'ed Drivers For NVIDIA nForce Ethernet Devices

An anonymous reader writes "Manfred Spraul has released a GPLed driver for the ethernet device found in motherboards based on the Nvidia Nforce/Nforce2/Nforce3 chipsets. Drivers provided by Nvidia on the other hand, are closed. Andrew Morton has integrated this driver in the 2.6.9-mm2 release of his mm tree. And if you are using a 2.4x kernel, you may want to check out this post."

2.6.9?

[jamessan]

Wow, I didn't know the kernel left -test status and increased 9 versions since yesterday. Andrew Morton must be on top of things to get a -mm patch out that quick, too.

Good job editors. ;)

And now, a chart.

[ActiveSX]

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GPL'ed Drivers for NVIDIA nForce...

Way to get my hopes up, Slashdot. I guess my kernel will continue to be tainted.