2.2.0 Bug summary, year old tulip.c in 2.2.0pre1 (fwd)

[Matthew Geier]

> 
> On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Mark Lin wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Adam Heath wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Um, tulip.c is old in the kernel.  Donald Becker's web page has a newer
> > > > driver(compiled with 2.1 w/ warnings).  I need this for my netcard.
> > > 
> > > The newer tulip has been reported to just reboot machines randomly on the
> > > mailing lists.
> > > 
> > > 		Linus
> > > 
> > 
> > Works great for Dell PowerEdge 2200 in SMP.  No random reboots with
> > new kernel or new tulip driver.  
> > 
> 
 I had to get the latest driver to convince my Accton 1207Bs to run in
full duplex. Perfomance was terrible otherwise. (Old Cisco non N-Way
switch.. It just blindly spoke FDX at them....)


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