Intel PRO/100 Cardbus II with 82559 chip

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Tue Mar 28 14:09:53 2000


On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, David Hinds wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:51:42PM -0700, John Matthews wrote:
> > Donald Becker's Web page says that his driver supports cardbus but I
> > can't find any directions on how to install it for cardbus.
> 
> I would not hold my breath waiting for a response; Donald stopped
> supporting his drivers about six months ago.

The reasons for this have been well covered in other forums.
See the latest Linux Weekly News for a summary that attempts to be
unbiased.  Despite the recent exchange, triggered by the imminent release of
2.4, the trouble occurred about six months ago.  My latest internal version
of eepro100.c is dated 1/21/2000, but those updates are unlikely to ever
make it to the driver distributed with the kernel.

>  The driver does not
> support Cardbus as is: the web page is wrong.

The driver at
  http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/index.html
  ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/
works with the CardBus version of the eepro100.

Despite the name, this driver works with kernels through the early 2.3.*
versions, and not with the latest pre-2.4.* development kernels.

Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, becker@scyld.com

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