Subject: Re: eepro100.c & Intel integrated MBs
To: jurgen@botz.org (Jurgen Botz)
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:29:01 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <11361.1004374395@nova.botz.org> from "Jurgen Botz" at Oct 29, 2001 08:53:15 AM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org

> I'm now using the e100 driver from the Intel web site, which works
> perfectly, and light testing shows the Scyld (Don Becker) driver
> to work as well.  The Intel driver seems to have an incompatible
> license (noxious advertising clause?), but the Scyld drivers don't...
> at least there isn't any license mentioned and of course many=20
> of the net drivers in the current kernel are just earlier versions
> of the Scyld drivers.

Its not quite that simple - they are branches. If the Becker driver works
and the -ac driver doesn't then that is good news and it would be very
interesting to figure out which change mattered.

The -ac kernel on my i810/i815 boxes works reliably providing I dont turn
on the ACPI stuff
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