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Re: Tulip & 3c59x
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Sun Jun 2 02:10:41 1996
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 01:56:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199606020356.UAA26059@dandelion.com>
On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Leonard N. Zubkoff wrote:
> I noticed that current pre2.0 kernels seem to have versions of the tulip.c and
> 3c59x.c Ethernet drivers that are out of date with respect to the versions
> available from the CESDIS Web site; the Tulip driver seems to have been
> modified from an earlier version.
>
> Is there some reason for this? Which versions actually work best for Linux
> 2.0pre?
I think this is more a rule than exception. I was using Donald Becker's
3c509.c v1.07 in 1.2.13 kernels long before the 1.3 series finally adopted
it. In fact, just today, I upgraded a 1.3.72 kernel from the 1.03 driver
to the 1.07 driver, which seemed to clear up alot of kernel messages like:
Jun 1 02:02:45 irc kernel: eth0: Missed interrupt, status then 2011 now
2011 Tx 00 Rx 3852.
I was getting dozens a day. I've gone 6 hours with none yet since the
upgrade.
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