On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 08:15:13PM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > Why do none of the development kernel releases have the Vortex/Boomerang
> > 3COM 3C9XX driver in them? 2.0.x has it? I am hanging to get good SMP
> > support as well as being able to use my card.
>
> They do, check drivers/net/3c59x.c, looks like:
>
> 3c59x are Vortex cards.
> 3c90x are Boomerang cards.
>
> Use the config. option called '3c590 series (592/595/597) "Vortex" support'
> and guess it will work.
>
This has irritated me somewhat. The attached patch should make this
clearer in the configuration.
astor
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--- Config.in.old Fri Apr 17 11:57:16 1998 +++ Config.in Fri Apr 17 11:58:59 1998 @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ fi fi tristate '3c509/3c579 support' CONFIG_EL3 - tristate '3c590 series (592/595/597) "Vortex" support' CONFIG_VORTEX + tristate '3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) "Vortex/Boomerang" support' CONFIG_VORTEX fi bool 'AMD LANCE and PCnet (AT1500 and NE2100) support' CONFIG_LANCE bool 'Western Digital/SMC cards' CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC
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