On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Joseph L. Casale <JCasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote: >>I can't find a Linux driver for it except one that appears to require me >>to recompile a custom kernel. I find it on the Marvell website: >> >>http://www.marvell.com/drivers/search.do > > No, you make a module with that downlaod. I also have the unfortunate luck > to have a few systems with various Marvell nics and they aren't as good as > Intel IMHO. If the 88E8042 shares the same driver as 88E8056, check out this forum thread: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=12895&forum=40 Scroll down to note #5 and get the kABI tracking kmod-sk98lin package. There will be no need to rebuild the driver for each kernel update. Akemi