Re: [ANN] removal of certain net drivers coming soon:eepro100,?xircom_tulip_cb, iph5526

[linux-os]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Scott Feldman wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 04:48, Meelis Roos wrote:
> > > See if eepro100 works on your 82556 cards.  I would be surprised if it
> > > does.  If it does, maybe it's not that much trouble to add support to
> > > e100.  Let us know.
> >
> > I did add the PCI ID to e100 to to try it with both drivers.
> >
> > In short: both eepro100 and e100 have problems loading the eeprom and
> > don't work at least out of the box.
>
> Thanks Meelis.
>
> I'll send a patch to Jeff to remove 82556 support from eepro100 for now,
> just in case eepro100 sticks around longer.  I believe it was a mistake
> to add it in the first place.  82556 support should not be in there.
>
> -scott

You just need to load mii first. Both of these drivers are working
fine on 2.6.10.

Module                  Size  Used by
HeavyLink              42756  0 
parport_pc             28740  1 
lp                     14092  0 
parport                37192  2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4                20612  0 
rfcomm                 38040  0 
l2cap                  26496  5 rfcomm
bluetooth              48516  4 rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc                134756  1 
e100                   36224  0               <-------! 
mii                     8192  1 e100          <-------!
ipt_REJECT              9856  1 
[Snipped...]


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.10 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips).
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