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SubjectRe: SysKonnect sk98lin Gigabit lan missing in action from 2.6.10 on
Jeff Garzik [jgarzik@pobox.com] wrote:
> maxer wrote:
> >What is the status of sk98lin? Do we have to wait until Syskonnect gets
> >their act together
> >and write a new driver for 2.6.10?
> >
> >Their latest is Oct 2004 and not at all compatible with 2.6.10 and beyond.
>
> I've been telling SysKonnect for _years_ that they need to split up
> their patches, but they still keep sending ever-larger jumbo driver
> update patches.
>
> Stephen Hemminger split up their patch into a bunch of patches, and I
> applied several of those.
>
> Apparently, Stephen also got sick of trying to patch and clean sk98lin,
> so he went and wrote his own "skge" driver. It's available in my
> netdev-2.6 queue, and should be in the latest -mm.
>
> Jeff
>
>
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I have a SysKonnect card, and tried the skge driver (it's in the mm tree), with nominal testing
I'd have to say it works well, if not better then the sk98lin driver.



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