What happened to bigfoot networks / killergaming

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Was just looking for some info on linux drivers for someone who has a gigabyte board with the Killer E2100 NIC (I couldn't find any reference to linux on any of their drivers and the windows driver is 100MB+ :eek:)
I went looking for the manufacturer support page (bigfoot networks / killer gaming)

Found the domains from bigfoot networks are all inactive
The twitter accounts go @BigfootNetworks > @QCAKillerGaming > @QualcommAtheros

I remember them coming out with killer nic in 2006 and being laughed at by most hardware people, especially after various people benchmarked their cards (main article was on anandtech) and found cpu load was higher with the killer nic and bandwidth performance was lower than some onboard ethernet.

Anyway, it seems they were maybe taken over :confused:

As there are high-end boards still coming out with "Killer NIC" as a selling point there must be a company who provide gigabyte etc with the components / drivers etc :confused:

Example new board with this: Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming G1-Wifi BK Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
 
Think the IP belongs to some OEM or something and thats about it. Qualcomm probably license the bare hardware and basic software to i.e. gigabyte to make their own frontend for.

According to the wiki "The successor technology Game Networking DNA now supported by Qualcomm Atheros [5] remains a Microsoft Windows-only solution"
 
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Rroff said:
"The successor technology Game Networking DNA now supported by Qualcomm Atheros [5] remains a Microsoft Windows-only solution"
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Pretty bad for anyone buying for linux then :( most of the motherboards with the NIC's are really expensive aswell :eek:

Not sure if the newer Killer NICs do this, but the original ones had freescale cpu's onboard and ran embedded linux
 
They were snake oil then and are snake oil now. Absolute waste of time and money. If you want to move away from an embedded NIC buy a solid Intel PCI-E unit and be done with it.

Sooner the whole thing dies a death the better.

Disable the Killer NIC at BIOS level. Put in an Intel NIC, install Linux drivers for that.
 
Sin_Chase said:
They were snake oil then and are snake oil now. Absolute waste of time and money. If you want to move away from an embedded NIC buy a solid Intel PCI-E unit and be done with it.

Sooner the whole thing dies a death the better.

Disable the Killer NIC at BIOS level. Put in an Intel NIC, install Linux drivers for that.
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Will tell them to look at getting a PCIe intel card :)

Just really annoys me that 'gamers' are easily led and buy rubbish like this thinking they will get an advantage then before we know it MSI and Gigabyte are putting them in all their top of the range boards :( (which also means anyone who wants to run linux in the future will have no driver support)

I found the product page for Gamer Networking DNA on the qualcomm site and it just looks laughable, does what a average linux router can do but they have fancy graphics and have renamed QoS to "Advanced Stream Detect" and "Application Priority" :rolleyes:
 
As I found out, Intel NIC cards are super cheap on ebay!

Managed to pick up a 4 port gigabit card for £50 delivered :D
 
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