On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Paul W. Abrahams wrote: > The tulip.c driver included in the 2.2.18 kernel sources is > obsolete and does not work with the very popular Linksys > Ethernet 10/100 PCI card. On my system it yields repeated > messages in the system log: "very popular" is a relative term apparently .. > 21140 transmit timed out, status ffffff > > Fortunately a newer version is available that works > perfectly with this card; all that's needed is to update the > version now in the kernel sources. The version in 2.2.18 > is 0.91g, dated 7/16/99; The version in 2.2.18 is a modified version of 0.91g-ppc. > the newer version is 0.92, dated > 4/17/2000. The newer version can be gotten from > http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html. I believe that > for correct operation, the card also requires the pci-scan > module. The version is not going to be merged into the kernel as long as it uses the pci-scan module. I just finished merging important bits into the 2.4.x driver, so it will support it soon. (supports it now, if you want to check it out of gkernel CVS) Jeff - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
