Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Jun 1997 11:03:13 +0200 (MDT) | From | Torbjorn Lindgren <> | Subject | Re: For the love of god!!! PLEASE somebody update 3com vortex config listing. |
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On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > It's being worked on. David Miller ( if I can speak for Dave... Hi > Dave :-) ) has already stated an intention on including the boomerang driver > in a upcoming kernel (2.0.31 I hope!). The great debate (flame) is what > version. The most "stable" version at this time appears to be 0.30 with > some patches. But, AFAIK, it does not support the 100Mbit 3c905 but only > the 10Mbit 3c900. I may be wrong on that and people are welcome to roundly > flame me in private if I am.
It works fine on 100 MBit, as does *all* versions of the Vortex/Boomerang driver I've seen. I'm fairly sure even 0.25 (really ancient) supported that!
(I don't have anything older than 0.28c archived, which supports types of 3c905's).
> I have just seen a patch on the vortex mailing list (vortex was the > code name for the 3c59x cards while boomerang is the code name for their > successors, the 3c90x cards) which claims to now fix both the cable > disconnect and the 16 retries problem. The explanation seems plausable and > the patch looks reasonable. I'll be checking this out later today. If this > shoots these two dragons in the 0.41 driver, we need the subsequent 0.42 > driver in the kernel ASAP.
It's not that urgent if we get the "0.31" driver in first, the one used in pre-2. It doesn't use DMA, but it's a known working version that can be used until the DMA version has shaked down.
-- Torbjörn Lindgren E-mail: tl@funcom.com If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.
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