Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: NetGear FA310TX/tulip.c | Date | 24 Mar 1999 21:16:54 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.m10Q1Ey-0007U1C@the-village.bc.nu>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: >> was just wondering what keeps us from including that tulip.c in the >> kernel as a driver for NetGear cards. Maybe as netgear.c? I was (just . . .
>The current tulip driver handles all these various pseudo tulip abominations.
Out of curiosity, why do you refer to the Tulip clones as `abominations'? I'm running a few of them in high-performance network servers, and, with the netgear tulip.c they seem to be (on the basis of performance and looking at error logs) about as nice as I would want any ethernet card to be.
____ david parsons \bi/ The SMC Etherpower 100s I used to use were a lot more \/ problematic than the netgear clones.
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