Re: stale tulip driver in 2.1.128?

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:03:13 +0300 (MSK)


16-Nov-98 11:09 you wrote:
> The drivers/net/tulip.c in 2.0.35 is v0.88.
> The drivers/net/tulip.c in 2.0.36 is v0.89H.
> The drivers/net/tulip.c in 2.1.128 is v0.83!

> I've been replacing the driver in 2.1.xxx with v0.89H and recently
> v0.90 for quite some time now with Kingston KNE100TX NICs with no ill
> effects (whatever problems there are in v0.90 go unnoticed by me). If
> there's a valid argument for not trying to get v0.90 tested and
> stabilized for linux-2.2.0, then I'm very interested in hearing it!

My (and looks like your :-) card works like a charm with 0.89H but ask,
for example, KSI (Serguei Koubouchine <ksi@gu.net>) and you'll find that
there are a lot of cards compatible with 0.83, but not 0.89H (and vice
versa to make life worse). Plus 0.83 in 2.1.x kernel has some fast routing
features...

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