Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Apr 1998 22:18:57 -0400 (EDT) | From | Paul Miller <> | Subject | Re: (PLEASE READ THIS) Re: weird 3c590 problems |
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I'm running 2.0.34pre11b right now and it includes the lastest driver from Becker.. Are you saying I should copy the 3x59x.c (v.49H I think) from kernel 2.1.98?
-Paul
P.S. The problem with the adaptor failing a sleep was fixed... I setup the BIOS to put my monitor into suspend mode after one hour... I didn't realize at the time that the rest of the computer would also be dozing off... (I thought it was the kernel because I upgraded at the same time I changed the BIOS)
The speed realated problems are definately still a problem... playing mp3s often skips now -- they never have before. Nothing has changed on the win95 client computer, winamp buffering, etc..
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, David S. Miller wrote:
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 02:58:18 +0100 (BST) > From: Mike <mike@oakley.keble.ox.ac.uk> > > On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > > I'm using kernel 2.0.32 with the Vortex 3c59x.c:v0.99 4/7/98 by Donald > > Becker Linux driver. The only other patches are ipportfw and > > cyrix-support-2. > > I had one person who had horrible network performance, and the culprit > was thought to be TCP, so I worked with this person for a few weeks > straight analyzing his network topology and analyzing megabytes of > tcpdump output from connections to various places. > > Suddenly one day, all his performance problems went away. I asked him > to try and figure out what changes were made to the kernel between > that last 2.1.9x he tried and the one he was trying now where the bugs > had disappeared. > > Turns out he was in "the habit" of just plucking the latest Becker > 3c59x driver into the 2.1.x source tree, but this time he _forgot_ to > do it. > > So I urge people to do their testing with the drivers which are in the > 2.1.9x tree when they see problems, if this is a possibility. It is > much easier to track down bugs if you haven't added other pieces of > code and patches to the vanilla sources. > > Later, > David S. Miller > davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >
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