3c905 & skput:over

[Tomas Hruby]

Zdravim,

ten driver pouzivam asi tyden a vypada dobre. Bohuzel jen na privatnim 
10M twistu, (za to ale v hustem provozu) takze nevim, jestli vyresi Vas
problem.

--th


On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Jiri Vyhnanek wrote:

>    Mam nasledujici problem pada my kernel na hlasku
>    kernel panic skput:over:xxxxxxx:xxx funkce ve ktere
>    to vypadne je v Beckerove ovladaci 3c59x.

>    3. Pry existuje varianta ovladace 3c59x od jakehosi Chrise nekde
>       v Anglii (nevi nekdo kde jse da stahnout).


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Forwarded message:

>From chris na ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk Sat Sep 27 15:05:04 1997
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 12:43:08 +0100 (BST)
From: Chris Evans <chris na ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff.garzik na spinne.com>
Cc: linux-kernel na vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: Beautiful people (and 3c9xx...)


On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> The alternative Boomerang driver, from Chris ??? if memory serves, works
> like a charm, and is rock solid at high data rates (including packet
> loss on the local ethernet).

Yeah, I knocked up an unofficial 3c59x.c driver a while back, after
experiencing hideous troubles myself. It does indeed appear to be rock
solid here, over many months of testing (ie. not a single hang or crash on
the network interface or card in that time).

Inter-|   Receive                  |  Transmit
 face |packets errs drop fifo frame|packets errs drop fifo colls carrier
    lo:1164142    0    0    0    0  1164142    0    0    0     0    0
  eth0:1239815755  132  132    1  231 477241551   18   18    0 5553470 4428
       ^^^^^^^
          Yes, that's 1.2 billion :-)

The downside to my version is that it is based off a version not
supporting all the juicy features of the newer boards.

ftp://ftp.lmh.ox.ac.uk/users/chris/3c59x.c   [probably]

Note, however, that a v0.45 has appeared on Donald Becker's page. He's a
hard man to keep up with; kernel2.0.31pre9 has version v0.43 :-)

Cheers
Chris

PS On the same site under pub/linux, there's a fast UK mirror of a few
goodies if anyone's interested. Includes latest kernel, dosemu, wine,
gimp, and anything else I consider worthwhile...