[129] in resnet
Re: AT1700 under Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael L. Barrow)
Wed Jan 19 16:12:42 1994
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 16:11:09 -0500
To: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>, mingliu@MIT.EDU
From: mlbarrow@MIT.EDU (Michael L. Barrow)
Cc: linux-help@MIT.EDU, resnet-help@MIT.EDU, resnet@MIT.EDU
At 11:24 AM 1/19/94 -0500, Erik Nygren wrote:
>Daniel Thumim pointed out that the AT-1700's at the MCC are new models
>that aren't even on the market yet. As such, they are slightly
This is completely false. If the cards were not on the market, then the MCC
wouldn't be able to buy and sell them.
>
>I've tried using kernels which I know has the AT-1700 driver built in
>with people's machines I know work. The probing fails and
>as a result, ifconfig and route fail...
>
>Many of the Linux/AT-1700 problems people have been having have
>therefore not been their faults, but due to the fact that the new card
>sold by the MCC breaks the existing driver! This is bad.
>(I don't have an AT-1700 myself).
>
The old Linux driver was broken. It is not the fault of the card. Chris
Murphy worked with the person that writes the Ethernet drivers for Linux
and fixed the AT-1700 driver. Chris met with Greg Hudson and has set him up
with the working driver. You should be able to get it from the SIPB Linux
team and tsx-11 within a few days.
If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact me.
-- mlb
-- Michael L. Barrow
Network Analyst/Resnet Support Coordinator
MIT Distributed Computing and Network Services
Director, Boston Computer Society Internet SIG
