Re: Ooops in FDDI defxx driver

Aaron Burt (aaronb@eskimo.com)
Tue, 6 Jul 1999 23:47:54 -0700 (PDT)

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>Since I upgraded from 2.0.34 to the 2.2.x series, your driver will
>randomly oops at ifconfig time (the machine will boot fine 4 times out of
>5). The version the FDDI driver in 2.2.6 is 1.04 09/16/96, so some
>interface could have changed in the 2.2.x series without the driver ever
>being updated.

Alan Cox was playing with the defxx driver 'round 2.2.1-AC5; don't know if
he finished, or if his patches made it into the Linus kernels.

I'm keeping an eye on defxx myself 'cos my ISP wants to build a Linux/X86
NFS server and defxx is the only stable FDDI driver I know of. Keep us in
the loop, would'ja?

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