Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary, year old tulip.c in 2.2.0pre1 (fwd)
Matthew Geier (matthew@sleeper.apana.org.au)
Wed, 30 Dec 1998 17:37:18 +1100 (EST)
>
> On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Mark Lin wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Adam Heath wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Um, tulip.c is old in the kernel. Donald Becker's web page has a newer
> > > > driver(compiled with 2.1 w/ warnings). I need this for my netcard.
> > >
> > > The newer tulip has been reported to just reboot machines randomly on the
> > > mailing lists.
> > >
> > > Linus
> > >
> >
> > Works great for Dell PowerEdge 2200 in SMP. No random reboots with
> > new kernel or new tulip driver.
> >
>
I had to get the latest driver to convince my Accton 1207Bs to run in
full duplex. Perfomance was terrible otherwise. (Old Cisco non N-Way
switch.. It just blindly spoke FDX at them....)
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