Re: [Sheflug] Network card installation

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Alex Hudson wrote:

> some cards / etc. LinkSys have been good about getting their cards working
> in the past, and certainly if a manufacturer was offering a driver I'd use
> that in preference to any kernel version, at least initially. Given that
> this driver requires "pci-scan.h" and "kern_compat.h" points to it, at least
> originally, being a work of Donald Becker, so it's probably a reasonable
> quality driver. Getting anything from 2.4.0 working is probably harder than
> getting the intended version working.

The driver in the kernel tree was last modified last month (and is based
on Don Becker's work). Yeah, the 2.4 stuff is still a little short of
production quality, but rather than struggle with some daft 3rd party
driver it may be an option.

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