Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary, year old tulip.c in 2.2.0pre1

david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
30 Dec 1998 13:47:48 -0800

In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.95.981229105453.11410D-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> 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.

And, for what it's worth, the newer tulip will cheerfully drop the
transmitter on the floor when it's run at 100mbit on an older SMC
EtherPower.

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david parsons \bi/ Which is moderately annoying when that transmitter
\/ is attached to a big NFS server.

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