Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 04 Oct 2001 09:09:48 -0700 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 |
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"Henning P. Schmiedehausen" wrote: > > Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> writes: > > >jamal wrote: > >> > >> I think you can save yourself a lot of pain today by going to a "better > >> driver"/hardware. Switch to a tulip based board; in particular one which > >> is based on the 21143 chipset. Compile in hardware traffic control and > >> save yourself some pain. > > >The tulip driver only started working for my DLINK 4-port NIC > >after about 2.4.8, and last I checked the ZYNX 4-port still refuses > >to work, so I wouldn't consider it a paradigm of > >stability and grace quite yet. Regardless of that, it is often > >impossible to trade NICS (think built-in 1U servers), and claiming > >to only work correctly on certain hardware (and potentially lock up > >hard on other hardware) is a pretty sorry state of affairs... > > Does it finally do speed and duplex auto negotiation with Cisco > Catalyst Switches? Something I never ever got to work with various 2.0 > and 2.2 drivers, mode settings, Catalyst settings, IOS versions and > almost anything else that I ever tried.
Check the latest driver, it works with my IBM switch, and with other EEPRO and Tulip NICs now, so it may work for you. The DLINK 4-port is actually the only one I know of that I have ever gotten to fully function. The ZYNX would kind of work at half-duplex for a while, and an ancient Adaptec I tried locks the whole computer on insmod of it's driver (IRQ routing issues someone guessed...) There are several 2-port EEPRO based NICs out there that work really well too, but they are expensive...
Ben
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