Re: eepro100 ?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 10:35:24 EST


On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 14:11, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> in my dmesg log. Out of curiosity I tried with the alternate driver and
> that seems to have gone away. Is one depreciated or are they both
> viable and just different? The help message doesn't really say much on
> the topic.
>
> < > EtherExpressPro/100 support (eepro100, original Becker driver)
> < > EtherExpressPro/100 support (e100, Alternate Intel driver)

e100 is intels own driver which was initially proprietary but has since been
cleaned up a lot and relicensed GPL, then merged with the kernel. The e100
driver is probably the best driver to be using nowdays although both should
work reliably

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