Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Nov 1997 13:27:29 -0500 | From | Frank Sweetser <> | Subject | RE: Linux 2.0.32 and DEC 21142 Ethernet |
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==> Regarding RE: Linux 2.0.32 and DEC 21142 Ethernet; Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net> adds:
dledford> On 25-Nov-97 Jos Vos wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Can anyone tell me if the Digital 21142 chip should work fine with Linux >> 2.0.32? I'm considering to buy a Digital system with a built-in 21142, >> but I have serious doubts about the support for this chip in 2.0.x, >> after searching for information using AltaVista and Dejanews.
dledford> That's a good question. The de4x5 driver update that went into dledford> 2.0.30 (or was it in 2.0.31) was suppossed to add support for dledford> these cards, but I can't say myself since I haven't used them. dledford> The next update to that driver is also suppossed to clean up a dledford> few bugs here and there specifically in relation to those cards. dledford> There is a patch available against 2.0.32 that updates the de4x5 dledford> driver to version 0.53, which is the latest version as posted by dledford> the author of the driver to linux-net about a week ago. It would dledford> be nice to know how this version of the driver works compared to dledford> the older versions. Specifically, does it properly support the dledford> chipset you mentioned, and does it finally fix the problem with dledford> DE500 cards in 100Mbit/s mode? Anybody want to test this out and dledford> let me know? The patch is available on the LMP website under the dledford> additional patches area for now. For those of you who don't dledford> recall, the LMP website is at http://linux.dialnet.net/LMP
This should be supported under the tulip driver (http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers), which supports the whole tulip chipset family of cards. I've been using the tulip driver with a DE500 in 100M-FD for about a month now, with 0 problems. Clocked it at up to 30Mbytes sustained file transfer, still have to do some actual testing soon...
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