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Intel Announces New Linux Driver for its Family of 10/100 Megabit-Per-Second Network Adapters and LAN on Motherboard Products - Product Announcement

Intel Corporation (Nasdaq:INTC) Wednesday announced the availability of a Linux driver for the Intel PRO/100 adapter family and LAN on motherboard (LOM) product line.

The new Linux driver brings Intel reliability and performance to Linux-based Internet and Intranet Web servers, databases, and e-mail servers.

The new 10/100 Mbps Linux driver is the latest advancement in Intel's comprehensive Gigabit and Fast Ethernet product line for customers who use Linux as their primary operating system. In October of last year, Intel announced the industry's first Gigabit Linux driver from a hardware vendor.

The new driver, which uses Intel SingleDriver technology, allows users to simplify the management of personal computers and servers. The Intel 10/100 Mbps Linux driver is an open source software driver that allows developers to customize the driver to meet their individual company needs. The Intel 10/100 Mbps Linux driver is supported by Intel's existing server and desktop LAN solutions, including Intel PRO/100 adapter and Intel 82558 and Intel 82559 LOM adapters.

With the new Intel 10/100 Mbps Linux driver, the Linux community can now benefit from Intel's adaptive technology, adaptive performance tuning, transmission control protocol (TCP) checksum offloading and enhanced multicasting addressing.

According to Miller Freeman, Linux is the fastest growing operating system and more than 90 percent of Linux installations are located on Intel Pentium processor based computers.

"As Internet Service Providers and other e-Businesses adopt Linux on Intel architecture-based platforms, the need to provide Linux networking solutions grows," said Tim Dunn, business unit manager, Intel's LAN Access Organization. "With our new Linux(Note A) 10/100 Mbps and our second generation Gigabit Ethernet solutions, customers attain the benefits of high-bandwidth connections and have the confidence of knowing the driver is designed by Intel to work on our adapter."

Amaranth Networks, a value added reseller that sells primarily to ISPs, Web hosting facilities and their clients, offers networking equipment and rack-mounted server systems that are based on Intel's Ethernet product family. "Amaranth Networks is pleased with Intel's commitment to the Linux community," stated Daniel Senie, chief executive officer, Amaranth Networks. "In our beta test of Intel's new Linux driver for the Intel PRO/100 family, the driver has proven itself to be very reliable in our servers and in our customers' servers."

The new Linux driver source code for the Intel PRO/100 family of adapters is available at no charge to the Linux development community on Intel's Web site at http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/30504.htm. In addition, support for the Linux driver may be obtained on Intel's Web site at http://support.intel.com/newsgroups/networkindex.htm, as well as on several online newsgroups that support the Linux community.

FMI: www.intel.com/network or 800/538-3373.