Re: [Sheflug] Network card installation

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

> > 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.

To be honest, I would guess that LinkSys are using the latest driver, I
wouldn't say it's "third party" necessarily. The tulip drivers out with
2.2.x aren't supposed to be great, and most people aren't going to check a
driver out of a dev. kernel. I don't have a copy of Sammy's driver, but I
wouldn't be surprised if a diff between that and the linksys one showed very
little difference. Linksys have helped the kernel driver development before
(I believe), they're not one of these dodgy binary-only type people or
something like that..

Cheers,

Alex.

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