Tulip driver, Linksys card, and 2.3.x kernels.. success

[James Curbo]

[please cc: me in all replies, I am not subscribed to the list]

I recently bought a Linksys EtherFast LNE100TX PCI network card,
and started digging through the Tulip page on CESDIS to get the driver,
since I have read before that the kernel driver is outdated.
Well the latest development driver (0.91g I believe) doesn't compile on
2.3.x (as previously reported) and I found Kevin Myers' reports
on this mailing list about how he got the new 0.91x drivers 
to compile. I followed them and I would like to report
that they work like a charm and I've had the driver going for 
about a day now with no apparent problems. I'd like to thank Kevin
for the instructions, I'm not a superb kernel hacker, and without
them I'd be forced to use 2.2 and not be on the bleeding edge :)

My system is a AMD K6-II 450 w/64 MB RAM, aforementioned LNE100TX
ethercard, under 2.3.40-pre6 on Debian unstable. 

lspci -vv output:

00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc: Unknown device c115 (rev 25)
	Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc: Unknown device c001
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR+
	Latency: 8 min, 56 max, 64 set, cache line size 08
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
	Region 0: I/O ports at e800 [size=256]
	Region 1: Memory at eb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Expansion ROM at ea000000 [disabled] [size=256K]
	Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 1
		Flags: PMEClk- AuxPwr- DSI- D1+ D2+ PME-
		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

and the driver output:

tulip.c:v0.91x 12/15/99 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
eth0: Lite-On PNIC-II rev 37 at 0xc403c000, 00:A0:CC:E4:40:C5, IRQ 10.


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