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Re: As 2.0 looms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Fawcus)
Fri Apr 26 17:52:20 1996
From: df@eyrie.demon.co.uk (Derek Fawcus)
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 17:41:46 +0100 (BST)
In-Reply-To: <9604240319.AA23260@rsphy6.anu.edu.au> from "Paul Gortmaker" at Apr 24, 96 01:19:38 pm
Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>
> A lot of the other cards listed as "alpha" are there simply due to
> the fact that they are relatively uncommon, and thus feedback is low
> to nonexistent. Not sure what you want to do about those...
Of those, I've got a few NI6510's, but don't use the specific driver.
I use the generic lance driver with a patch applied. This is because
the ni6510 driver ground to a halt in early 1.3 series, and I decided
it would be easier to use the generic lance than to fix the ni6510 driver.
[ An NI6510 is basically a NE2100 with a different io space ordering and
s/w readable jumpers ]
Since then, the ni6510 driver has been updated, but I still don't use
it because I'm of the opinion that the lance driver is more robust.
Maybe if I get the patch into the kernel, then we should remove the
ni6510 driver?
DF
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Derek Fawcus (G7FVS) df@eyrie.demon.co.uk
