Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:00:07 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-rc6 1/2] dllink driver: porting v1.19 to linux 2.6.18-rc6 |
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Hayim Shaul wrote: > Description: > For DLink Fiber NIC, Linux 2.4.22 ships with driver version 1.19, > whereas, Linux 2.6.x ship with driver version 1.17. > > The following patch upgrades the 2.6.x driver to include changes (and > bug fixes done until 1.19b). > > These fixes are (copied from the driver): > 1.18 2002/11/07 New tx scheme, adaptive tx_coalesce. > Remove tx_coalesce option. > 1.19 2003/12/16 Fix problem parsing the eeprom on big endian > systems. (philt@4bridgeworks.com) > > Disclaimer: > Since I returned my DLink NIC to the store I couldn't test it > thoroughly. It seemed to work just as well as v1.17. However, both > version made the NIC hang after a few minutes.
Please update to the latest upstream kernel (2.6.22 or 2.6.23-rc).
Also, please make sure you do not back out changes included in the upstream kernel since 2.6.17.
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