Re: 3c59x.c

Larry M. Augustin (lma@varesearch.com)
Sun, 1 Jun 1997 17:45:34 -0700


We've had a patched 0.30-all in
ftp.varesearch.com:/pub/kernel/linux2.0.27-gcc2.7.2 for some time now
that's seemed pretty stable.

I agree that some 0.30 derivative seems to be the way to go for
2.0.31.

Larry

>Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 22:55:52 +0100 (BST)
>From: Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
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>Hi,
>
>I'm one of the unfortunates who's had _hideous_ trouble with his 3c590
>card. Notice "had", I'm now running on a pretty patched driver which isn't
>falling over in hurry. Previously I would get "transmitter access
>conflict" a few times a day (we're on a busy net and running plenty of
>servers, including a quake one!).
>
>As v0.40 _isn't_ stable, I recommend people with stability problems check
>out
>
>ftp://ftp.lmh.ox.ac.uk/users/chris/3c59x.c
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>It is built on a v0.30 base.
>
>Post any feedback here and cc: it to me, since people are threatening to
>put v0.40 in 2.0.31... not good...
>
>Chris
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