Re: SysKonnect ethernet support for Asus A8VE Deluxe Motherboard?

[Mws]

On Wednesday 13 July 2005 13:51, you wrote:
> Hamish Marson wrote:
> > I just installed Gentoo distribution on a new PC for a friend who's
> > new to Linux, and discovered that although SysKonnect kindly provide
> > full source code drivers for their various products on their website,
> > that even the latest released kernel sources (i.e. 2.6.12) still don't
> > support the device on this motherboard (Along with a whole host of
> > other PCI id's that appear in the syskonnect sources).
> 
> Gentoo 2.6.12 kernels provide the skge driver which supports this hardware (I
> believe). skge will be included in mainline 2.6.13.
> 
> > I've logged a bug on gentoo.org about it, but thought I'd ask, if
> > there's any reason that the syskonnect (sk98lin) drivers are so back
> > leve in the kernel sources when syskonnect seem to have published the
> > drivers for so many more of their devices in source...
> 
> The driver updates that syskonnect released are ugly and have been rejected by
> the network driver maintainers. skge was written as a response to this.
> 
> The very latest sk98lin updates add support for the new Yukon-II PCI-express
> adapters. These are not supported by skge -- the Yukon-II is very different
> and will eventually be supported by a separate driver. The techniques which
> sk98lin uses to support two vastly different network chipsets (yukon/yukon-II)
> in the same driver are generally not accepted in the kernel.

but they have one advantage for now. they do work.

i am using them for about 9 months now including upgrades.

regards
marcel

> 
> Daniel
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