Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 03:41:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 03:40:54 -0400 Received: from tangens.hometree.net ([212.34.181.34]:62927 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 03:40:50 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: forge.intermeta.de!not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 07:41:18 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Lines: 30 Message-ID: <9ph3qu$g9b$1@forge.intermeta.de> In-Reply-To: <3BBC05EC.AA9BFB4F@candelatech.com> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 1002181278 11723 212.34.181.4 (4 Oct 2001 07:41:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 07:41:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2001 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ben Greear writes: >jamal wrote: >> >> I think you can save yourself a lot of pain today by going to a "better >> driver"/hardware. Switch to a tulip based board; in particular one which >> is based on the 21143 chipset. Compile in hardware traffic control and >> save yourself some pain. >The tulip driver only started working for my DLINK 4-port NIC >after about 2.4.8, and last I checked the ZYNX 4-port still refuses >to work, so I wouldn't consider it a paradigm of >stability and grace quite yet. Regardless of that, it is often >impossible to trade NICS (think built-in 1U servers), and claiming >to only work correctly on certain hardware (and potentially lock up >hard on other hardware) is a pretty sorry state of affairs... Does it finally do speed and duplex auto negotiation with Cisco Catalyst Switches? Something I never ever got to work with various 2.0 and 2.2 drivers, mode settings, Catalyst settings, IOS versions and almost anything else that I ever tried. Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de Am Schwabachgrund 22 Fon.: 09131 / 50654-0 info@intermeta.de D-91054 Buckenhof Fax.: 09131 / 50654-20 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/