Messages in this thread | | | From | David Lang <> | Date | Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:03:27 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: 2.2.19: eepro100 and cmd_wait issues |
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I am useing the D-link 4 port card without running into problems (admittidly I have not been stressing it much yet)
David Lang
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Ben Greear wrote:
> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:51:08 -0700 > From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> > To: Ken Brownfield <brownfld@irridia.com> > Cc: Florin Andrei <florin@sgi.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: 2.2.19: eepro100 and cmd_wait issues > > Ken Brownfield wrote: > > > OT: does anyone know what the current state of the Tulip driver is and > > if there is good hardware out there? SMC left Tulip and went through at > > least two other chipsets, so the only Tulip card I could find as of a > > couple of years ago was Digital's. But it was astonishingly expensive > > and not clearly supported by the Linux driver. > > The current state seems to be 'BUSTED', at least for the cards > that I am trying (ZNYX 4-port, D-LINK 4-port). (I'm using the 2.4 > drivers, btw.) > > However, I'm hoping that it will be fixed soon, because the D-LINK > 4-port is very cheap compared to other 4-ports out there, and in fact > I haven't found a 4-port card that is NOT tulip based (please let > me know if you have 4-port suggestions!) > > Other than one really old EEPRO card I have, the EEPRO cards seem to be > very stable, fast, and feature-complete. > > Ben > > -- > Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> <Ben_Greear@excite.com> > President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com > ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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