Re: [Sheflug] rtl8139.c dropped in latest kernel?

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:09:10PM +0100, Chris J/#6 wrote:
> I've read in comp.os.linux.<whatever> that the new Realtek driver has 
> problems with DHCP, which probably means it has problems with broadcast. 
> Apparently if you copy the driver from 2.4.3 it works...I'll hunt out 
> references if needed, to make sure it the right driver - this is just 
> top-of-head stuff at the moment.

	Well, it is working for me now (and we use DHCP), so I'm safe
for the time being. I don't know how stable this driver is, as the old
one was quite good. I have heard in the mailing list (about a year back)
of increased performance for _some particular setups_ (not that sounds
about right :D) for the new driver, but of unstabilities galore.

	The only problem I seem to get is when powering down the system
(shutdown -h now), it gives an error message from eth0. However, this is
just before power down, when all daemons are safely tucked away in their
unmounted file systems, and I didn't bother writing down what the error
was. It was originating from eth0, but that's about all

	Thanks for the tip, if it all goes <biff><bang><crash><kapow>,
I'll get the other driver :-)
José
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