Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Egger <> | Subject | Re: What happened to LAN Media Corporation? | Date | Fri, 27 Feb 2004 02:38:36 +0100 |
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On Feb 26, 2004, at 11:51 pm, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> LANMEDIA WAN CARD DRIVER > P: Andrew Stanley-Jones > M: asj@lanmedia.com > W: http://www.lanmedia.com/ > S: Supported ^^^^^^^^^ Isn't there a no joke in maintainers policy? Should be.
> But lanmedia.com seems to be for sale by buydomains.com .
Bought by SBE. And the first cool action they placed on the market was to substitute all occurrences of LMC in the driver by SBE and make some other incompatible changes to make sure that the old tools wouldn't work with the "new" driver and vice versa. Surprisingly the kernel maintainers did not like this very much so the drivers in the latest kernels are somewhat old and conflicting with the "real" drivers.
What's more, their driver version 3.2 doesn't compile with 2.4.21 and up, so unless they've eventually released their highquality patch/driver/tool/utilities/extras + telnet and more bundle in version 4.0 version which will probably only work up to 2.4.24 anyway (due to the latest HDLC changes), one has to stick to an old version of the driver, which works somewhat but given the extraordinary code quality I would be very surprised if that's a synonym for a nice uptime.
There's something about WAN card manufacturers that seems to say: If you hate us for the sad driver quality, check back with our competition and then come back later...
Who's up next: Sangoma?
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