[tulip] Re: [PATCH] making old Conexant driver work

[Donald Becker]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> Sorry for the crosspost to so many people and lists - I don't know who is
> subscribed to what and which lists are alive.  Please trim To: and Cc:  
> accordingly.
> 
> I'm trying to add Linux support for Zoom PCI Cable Modem model 5001.  
> Zoom distributes closed source drivers at
> http://www.zoomtel.com/cable/linuxdrivers.shtml

Hmmm, those are not "closed source" drivers.  They are, plain and
simple, copyright violations.  That is tulip.c with the identification
removed.

> Search on the web shows that the support for Conexant existed in the Tulip
> driver in the past, but was removed later.

Conexant support exists in my driver, but not the driver branch
distributed with the kernel.

> Further in the thread, at
> http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-tulip/2001-Jul/0077.html , Christoph 
> Lameter publishes a tarball containing the driver supporting Conexant 
> LANfinity.

This is just a (now slightly old) version of my driver, with a Makefile
for a few new distributions.


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