Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Sep 1997 12:43:08 +0100 (BST) | From | Chris Evans <> | Subject | Re: Beautiful people (and 3c9xx...) |
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On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> The alternative Boomerang driver, from Chris ??? if memory serves, works > like a charm, and is rock solid at high data rates (including packet > loss on the local ethernet).
Yeah, I knocked up an unofficial 3c59x.c driver a while back, after experiencing hideous troubles myself. It does indeed appear to be rock solid here, over many months of testing (ie. not a single hang or crash on the network interface or card in that time).
Inter-| Receive | Transmit face |packets errs drop fifo frame|packets errs drop fifo colls carrier lo:1164142 0 0 0 0 1164142 0 0 0 0 0 eth0:1239815755 132 132 1 231 477241551 18 18 0 5553470 4428 ^^^^^^^ Yes, that's 1.2 billion :-)
The downside to my version is that it is based off a version not supporting all the juicy features of the newer boards.
ftp://ftp.lmh.ox.ac.uk/users/chris/3c59x.c [probably]
Note, however, that a v0.45 has appeared on Donald Becker's page. He's a hard man to keep up with; kernel2.0.31pre9 has version v0.43 :-)
Cheers Chris
PS On the same site under pub/linux, there's a fast UK mirror of a few goodies if anyone's interested. Includes latest kernel, dosemu, wine, gimp, and anything else I consider worthwhile...
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