Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Apr 1996 20:49:28 -0500 (CDT) | From | Doug Ledford <> | Subject | Linux-1.2.14-Unofficial |
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I have re-enabled downloads of this file from ftp.dialnet.net:/pub/linux/kernel. I was able to track down and identify the exact patch that was ruining PPP performance on this release. That patch has been removed, and a few new patches added. All of the previous patches are still in place except for Pentium memcpy optimizations. That happened to be what broke the PPP. I also added support for the NCR 53c7,8xx driver Release 16, aic7xxx driver release Apr08, and the NCR53c406 Release 0.12 driver. I would appreciate it if some people could download this and give it a whirl on some kind of decent usage system. I have installed it on 4 systems now. Three of the four have yet to get any errors, and 1 of the four returned an ext2-fs error and kernel panic. However, on the machine that paniced, I'm not sure if it is a Linux problem or a hardware problem. There are 3 hardware items of which I am unsure. The first is that this machine uses an Adaptec 2940B controller with a Quantum hard drive. The SCSI bus only has passive terminators on it. Since the 2940B is known to be buggy and termination sensitive, and since I only have passive termination on this bus (none of the devices on this bus supports active termination), I somewhat suspect this. A second thing is that the machine uses a clone NE2000 network card, soon to be replaced with the SMC EtherPower 10/100. The clone NE2000 could be giving problems, as some of them are known to cause occasional kernel panics. The third thing is the CPU itself, an older Pentium 100. I'm not sure how to tell if it is a B step Pentium or not, so I suppose that could be a problem. Anyway, for those reason, I would appreciate anyone else out there letting me know how there luck goes with this HEAVILY patched Linux 1.2.13 kernel.
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