Re: [Etherboot-developers] List of NICs by popularity

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Alastair McKinstry <mck...@co...> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm a debian developer working on the next-generation Debian Installer. 
> For people still using floppies + net to install from, we need to make 
> all the NIC driver modules for Linux available on floppies - this will
> take several floppies, and wish to prioritise them according to how
> popular each of the NICs are.
> 
> It appears that downloads from the rom-o-matic.org site would be a good
> source of nic popularity data in linux. Is such a list available?

Last I checked it was possible to compile all of the pci nic drivers 
into one kernel and still fit it onto a floppy.

Eric