Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Jan 1999 15:31:26 +0100 (MET) | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: 2.0 kernels, tulip driver, crashes and reboots (long) |
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On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > An alternative driver that works with most Tulip cards (but maybe not some > > of the newer clones) is the de4x5.c driver. I'd check it out - we had > > stability problems with tulip.c and swapping it for de4x5.c sorted them > > out. > > The older tulip driver blows up under certain memory conditions (fixed > by 0.89H) when certain variants get overlarge packets (fixed in 0.89K > I believe) and when some clones hand back crazy size reports (ditto).
Then why not use v0.89K instead of v0.89H in the kernel? Does the K-version contain bugs that the H-version doesn't contain? At least to me, K sounds like it is a newer version than H... (...HIJK...)
> 0.90 seems to work very well unless you have a VIA chipset.
Of course, the best solution would be to find the reason for this.
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