The good news is that HighPoint’s driver for the 1820A card now loads. I’m not exactly sure how it happened, but building the kernel module whilst booted from the Gentoo 2005.1 livecd meant that the module ended up with the wrong version string, which wasn’t compatible either with the livecd kernel nor the kernel I installed for the box. Booting the box into its own kernel, and then rebuilding the module, fixed that.
I don’t yet know which driver is the better choice - the Marvell driver, or Highpoint’s own. Benchmarking performance is one thing, but what I really need is some sort of stress test to help determine just how stable and reliable each driver is.
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October 26th, 2005 at 12:02 pm
Hurry up and get a gentoo-sources kernel out for it then please
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