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> On Sat, Jul 12, 1997 at 11:53:45PM -0700, JDC wrote:
> > I recently tried the 2.0.30-pre-patch-2 which was available
> > on ftp.kernel.org under davem's directory, and have a little
> > "complaint" to make about it.
>
> Don't mean to be picky, but:
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> It's an alpha test driver.
> It blows out for me under 2.1 also.
I have an SMC Etherpower 8432 and have noticed a big improvement in the
media detection in the 2.0.31-pre2 driver. The 8432 card has only a 10BT
port, no AUI or BNC; this was a problem in earlier versions of the driver,
since if the network went down, the machine would cycle between
10BT,AUI,BNC,10BT,AUI,etc. Usually it would require a reboot for it to
start working again.
I suppose that's less of a problem for most people, but since I'm home
from school during the summer, my computer is not hooked up to a hub. It
is connected to another PC with a crossover cable, and when the other PC
was shut off, my computer's media detection would go crazy. But now, it
just gives the message "eth0: No 21041 10baseT link beat, Media switch
ed to 10base2." when the link disappears, and "eth0: 21041 media switched
to 10baseT." when the link is back up.
> Use de4x5 instead for now.
> Or simply copy the old tulip driver from 2.0.30 into 2.0.31.
>
> In all honesty, I don't really think it should be put into 2.0 just yet.
> I've got an SMC EtherPower and the new driver doesn't like it at all.
>
What model of card do you have? Is it on a 100 mbit network? SMC certainly
has made plenty of different Etherpower cards, with a few different
chipsets. Not to mention all of the non-SMC tulip-based cards out there.
If the driver doesn't work with certain models of tulip card that worked
before, however, that's a good reason not to put the driver in the 2.0
series yet (or to fix the driver).
Does anyone know if there is a mailing list archive somewhere for the
linux-tulip-bug mailing list?
Brad Keryan
keryan@andrew.cmu.edu
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~keryan
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