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Subject: Re: RH 6.1 tulip ethernet driver From: "J. Scott Kasten" <jsk@titan.tetracon-eng.net> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:57:41 -0400 On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 01:54:16AM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Russell Steffen wrote: > > > Anyone else notice that RH6.1 (and apparently the official kernel sources > > too) have an old version of the tulip ethernet driver. I can tell you from > > experience that anyone who installs 6.1 on a system with a recent Linksys > > card is for a mandatory scavenger hunt and kernel recompile. > > Difficult subject... newer tulip drivers don't work with older cards. > There's been lots of discussion about the subject on linux-kernel, thus > far without any satisfactory resolution as far as I can tell. It seems > that everytime the driver tries to get updated (Alan's put it in a > pre-patch or an ac patch a few times), there tends to be lots of cries > of breakage. > > Jeremy Made even more difficult by the fact that OEMs generally are not very consistent at all in the chipsets that go into particular lines of cards. I've seen old chipsets in new cards. === Subject: Re: RH 6.1 tulip ethernet driver From: Ingo Luetkebohle <ingo@devconsult.de> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 10:58:16 +0200 (CEST) On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Russell Steffen wrote: > Anyone else notice that RH6.1 (and apparently the official kernel sources > too) have an old version of the tulip ethernet driver. I can tell you from > experience that anyone who installs 6.1 on a system with a recent Linksys > card is for a mandatory scavenger hunt and kernel recompile. Same here. I always fetch the current version and drop it in (Compex something 10/100 card). ===