Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 13:32:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 13:31:54 -0400 Received: from tangens.hometree.net ([212.34.181.34]:25574 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 13:31:38 -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 17:32:06 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Lines: 53 Message-ID: <9pi6em$itf$1@forge.intermeta.de> In-Reply-To: <3BBC05EC.AA9BFB4F@candelatech.com> <9ph3qu$g9b$1@forge.intermeta.de> <3BBC89CC.D791C8FA@candelatech.com> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 1002216726 4655 212.34.181.4 (4 Oct 2001 17:32:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 17:32:06 +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: >"Henning P. Schmiedehausen" wrote: >> >> 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. >Check the latest driver, it works with my IBM switch, and with other >EEPRO and Tulip NICs now, so it may work for you. The DLINK 4-port Hi, thanks for the suggestion, but I'm actually sold on using eepro100 and 3c59x NICs, both flavours never gave me any trouble (yes, I know about the 3xc59x and I was always careful to choose either the "B" with 2.0 and early 2.2 and now the "C" with later 2.2. Call me a snob for going the "FreeBSD way" and choosing HW that works and not taking the challenge to bring even the most obscure HW lying in a bin at a customer to work but telling the customer "you can now buy a new, guaranteed flawlessly performing NIC for $25 or pay me for four hours trying to get _that_ NIC to work. I charge a little more than $25 per hour..". Got them every time. ;-) Basically I burned [1] all my tulip NICs around a long time ago. >several 2-port EEPRO based NICs out there that work really well >too, but they are expensive... Hm. If I really need more NICs than PCI slots, I normally use a Router. And I've even toyed a little with a Gigabit card linked to a Cisco C3524XL using a certain 802.1q unofficial extension to the Linux kernel to try and provide 24 100 MBit Ethernet Interfaces from a single Linux Box [2]. Regards Henning [1] Put them in the unavoidable Windows NT and 2000 boxes where most of them with "vendor supported, MHL approved, certified and signed drivers" crash and burn as happily as under Linux. But the it is the fault of "the other consultant". I don't do Windows. [2] Didn't work, though. Got a C7206 instead. O:-) -- 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/