September 15th, 2005
Gigabit Ethernet
The other day, for $40 I bought an eight-port gigabit ethernet switch. And then I bought a pair of RTL8169 GigE NIC’s ($12 each) for a couple of linux servers I have. Then I decided to use the onboard Marvell Yukon GigE NIC on my workstation… at which point WinXP decided to freeze everytime I opened my web browser.
Turns out the Marvell Yukon drivers have a huge bug in it. If you own a Marvell Yukon GigE NIC, I highly recommend saving yourself a whole-lotta trouble and just go download the latest drivers here.