Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 13 Dec 2000 02:21:34 GMT | From | root <> | Subject | Re: National Semiconductor DP83815 ethernet driver? |
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>From searching Google, I know some sort of driver exists. In July, Adam J. >Richter (adam@yggdrasil.com) posted a 2.2.16 driver he obtained from Dave >Gotwisner at Wyse Technologies. And Tim Hockin mentioned that he was using >an NSC driver, but had made some minor modifications.
This one has a very murky past. Adam & I have both received the same driver from within NatSemi, which turned out to be a rehash of the driver originally written by Donald Becker (with his name and the GPL license removed...). It should be noted that this wasn't "written" by NatSemi themselves, but by a company called TeamF1.
Since then Donald's original driver (natsemi.c) has been folded into the 2.4 kernel, and I can happily report works well with 2.2 as well. It's certainly a lot better than the dp83815.c program, which I found had the tendency to hang the machine completely in high traffic (well, if you count ftping from a host on the same 10Mb half duplex network as high load ;).
john
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