"David S. Miller" wrote: > > Ben Greear writes: > > As recent as the 2.2.19 kernel, the D-LINK 4-port cards did not do > > auto-negotiation, or even fixed 100bt-FD correctly (I had to force > > them to 100bt-HD, which thankfully worked, at least.) > > > > If by working fine > > Donald's latest driver does not appear in any kernel. I am aware, but I have also tried manually patching it in, and it still failed. > > Donald does not know how to merge his latest code to > the kernel maintainers. It has been several years since > he has merged a driver into the main tree, most of the > time other people do it because they are so frustrated with > how broken the driver in the main tree is. Yes, there seems to be a major pissing contest between who can be the more hard-headed about this kind of thing. The end result, unfortunately, is broken drivers that are making my life, as well as many others, a complete pain in the arse when it comes to doing any type of high-performance networking on Linux. We have all these great routing/firewalling technologies, but try finding a NIC/driver that can hold up under the strain!!! I don't think the load can be completely dumped on Becker though, because I have been pretty dissapointed with my own efforts to get my VLAN patch added to the kernel. The patch process can definately seem like a black hole at times... -- Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> <Ben_Greear@excite.com> President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
