Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year
frezik@midwest.social 1 week agoA lot of those modules would work fine if the companies didn’t fuck with their drivers.
The Linux ixgbe (for Intel 82598 and 82599 chipsets) was submitted with a whitelist for Intel SFP+ adapters. Linux devs added a module option to shut off the whitelist, and tons of stuff is perfectly compatible.