> In a somewhat desperate attempt to get a recent 2.2.x kernel to not keep
> effectively hanging up under very high network and CPU load I tried putting the
> lastest version of the eepro100 driver (1.09l) into my stock 2.2.12 kernel.
> This seems to have fixed at least some of the problems. I can no longer easily
> generate "transmitter timeouts" that have been causing major headaches, and
> causing machines to fall off the parallel cluster.
> However, I am somewhat baffled as to why the driver version shipped with 2.2.12
> is so much older than the latest one (about 8 months or so old I think). Is
> there any reason for this?
Yes. Linus use eepro100 :-)) So driver must work AT LEAST on his comp. Driver
included in kernel does it. Most of recent drivers do not. May be really recent
ones will work just fine but Linus has other things to do apart of trying each
and every new version of eepro100.
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