Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: eepro100 ? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 04 Mar 2003 15:35:24 +0000 |
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On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 14:11, Robert L. Harris wrote: > in my dmesg log. Out of curiosity I tried with the alternate driver and > that seems to have gone away. Is one depreciated or are they both > viable and just different? The help message doesn't really say much on > the topic. > > < > EtherExpressPro/100 support (eepro100, original Becker driver) > < > EtherExpressPro/100 support (e100, Alternate Intel driver)
e100 is intels own driver which was initially proprietary but has since been cleaned up a lot and relicensed GPL, then merged with the kernel. The e100 driver is probably the best driver to be using nowdays although both should work reliably
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