On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Lists (lst) wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > Why the net drivers from the 2.4.18 are so old? Why are not updated from > > the scyld.com (made by Donald Becker)? > > > > I ask because I have problems with eepro100 drivers which is broken (at > > least on my machine). > > > Lots of history involved in answering that question :) > > Basically, Linus's and Becker's development styles are different. > > If you want some feature from Donald Becker's drivers in the kernel, > you'll need to send a patch to me and/or linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org. > > Becker's drivers _should_ work in 2.4 now, so you can grab his driver > from ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/ along with supporting files > pci-scan.[ch] and kern_compat.h. > > If you can narrow down the problem you are seeing, it would be great to > merge that fix into the kernel. Because some problems involving the Donald Becker's drivers for eepro100 NICs i'll try to use the Intel drivers. The compilation was OK but when I tryed to insert the module I receive this error: /lib/modules/2.4.18-SMP/kernel/drivers/net/e100.o: unresolved symbol del_timer_sync The same error if I'm trying to use the driver from the kernel (2.4.18). With the Donald's driver after 2 days of usage I receive this: > Jul 24 08:29:01 lapd eth3: IRQ 5 is physically blocked! Failing back to low-rate polling. > Jul 24 08:29:37 lapd eth3: IRQ 5 is physically blocked! Failing back to low-rate polling. > Jul 24 08:30:07 lapd eth3: IRQ 5 is physically blocked! Failing back to low-rate polling. > Jul 24 08:30:17 lapd eth3: IRQ 5 is still blocked! Thank you, Cosmin - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
