Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:31:14 +0100
From: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
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Subject: Re: 3c59x went nuts between .15-mm3 and .15-mm4
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The related patch had some (I think duplex related) 
issues with setting up certain NICs. It's reverted in 2.6.16-rc1-mm1.
I'm about to work out the problems of this patch.

The driver version did not increase since more than three years.
But perhaps it is a good idea to maintain the driver version. 

Steffen

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 10:53:45PM +0100, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> Hi all...
> 
> I can't use 2.6.15-mm4 on one of my boxes because it renders the 3Com NIC
> broken. No network connection. This is a 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 74).
> On one other box, I have a 3c980-C 10/100baseTX NIC [Python-T] (rev 78),
> driven also with 3c59x, that goes also deafmute.
> I have seen the changes between -mm3 and -mm4, and looks like a rewrite
> to use mii instead of homebrew code (btw, should not this increase the
> driver version number ?). But something there broke (or, as usual, some
> change in ACPI...).
> 
...

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