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Subject: Re: eepro100 ?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris@rdlg.net>
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On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 14:11, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> in my dmesg log.  Out of curiosity I tried with the alternate driver and
> that seems to have gone away.  Is one depreciated or are they both
> viable and just different?   The help message doesn't really say much on
> the topic.
> 
> < >     EtherExpressPro/100 support (eepro100, original Becker driver)
> < >     EtherExpressPro/100 support (e100, Alternate Intel driver)

e100 is intels own driver which was initially proprietary but has since been
cleaned up a lot and relicensed GPL, then merged with the kernel. The e100
driver is probably the best driver to be using nowdays although both should
work reliably

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