Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: status of via velocity in 2.6.9 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Tue, 07 Dec 2004 13:28:39 +0000 |
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On Maw, 2004-12-07 at 00:07, Johan wrote: > How 'working' are the via velocity drivers in 2.6.9?
They should be pretty solid. The original VIA code worked pretty well, the kernel merge had a few glitches but in 2.6.9* it seems rock solid with the bits Francois applied.
> Unfortunately, while they (the driver and card, that is) seem at first > to work fine, auto negotiating a gigabit connection with my hub, the > network stops working after 5 ish minutes (could be function of bytes > tx'ed as well, I guess). restarting the network (appart from a kernel > upgrade, the box is redhat fc2) fixes the problem... for another 5 minutes. > > Is this known behavior?
I've seen this with an Edimax el cheapo gigabit switch, but it was also doing it with some other cards so I assumed it was random cheap junk. Since I swapped that for a slightly better one it's behaved reliably.
> (*) The card's box advertizes linux compatibility with RH 7.3 (2.4.18-3 > or later), which makes me wonder whether another driver may work better. > 2.4.18-3 would seem to predate the via-velocity driver.
There is a vendor provided driver for older systems (and in fact VIA networking wrote and contributed the code that was cleaned up to go into the kernel too)
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