[CentOS] Marvell Yukon 8056?

Mon Feb 23 22:29:56 UTC 2009
Kurt Hansen <khansen at charityweb.net>

Tim Nelson wrote:
> Greetings list-
>
> I've got a server 'in the mail' and I see now on the specsheet that it has Marvell Yukon 8056 NICs onboard. Since I cannot seem to find a HCL for Centos 5 or RHEL5 to help verify, I'd like to know if it works 'out of the box' on CentOS 5.x or is there additional work to make it function (properly)? 
>
> My searching has revealed that there are in fact two different drivers for Marvell hardware... sky2 and sk8lin?
>
>   
Here's a recent discussion on the forum about this:

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=17422&forum=39&post_id=62832#forumpost62832

And the latest drivers in rpms:

http://centos.toracat.org/ajb/CentOS-5/sk98lin/

They've worked great for me for the past 3 months.

Take care,

Kurt Hansen