Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:28:26 -0800 | From | Lawrence Walton <> | Subject | Re: SysKonnect sk98lin Gigabit lan missing in action from 2.6.10 on |
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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 > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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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