Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Nov 1997 14:21:22 +0000 ( ) | From | Joel Matuseski <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.0.32.. |
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And speaking of drivers. The latest Vortex Driver from Donald Becker would also be appreciated. As an ISP, we use almost all Vortex cards (I know, I know...), and their performance, and sometimes operability is highly dependent on having the latest one....
On 17 Nov 1997, Jes Degn Soerensen wrote:
> >>>>> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes: > > Linus> There may well still be some problems hiding somewhere, but I > Linus> suspect many people will be happier with an official 2.0.x > Linus> release that fixes both the Pentium bug and the network > Linus> fragment bug even if there are small details with the Pentium > Linus> bug that may need looking into. For an ISP, strange corner-case > Linus> behaviour (if there is any) is still a lot better than a dead > Linus> machine. > > Hmmm while we've been confused with the Pentium bug I forgot to > mention something - dunno if other people said so before. > > I just checked 2.0.32-pre6 and I noticed that it still has the old > v0.34 driver for the EEPro100 boards. With this driver we are not even > able to install our boxes here since the boards hang when you `cold > start' on them. Could you please update it to the v0.36 driver which > is known to fix this problem (and which indeed solves our startup > problem). > > Jes >
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