On Saturday 26 July 2003 09:57 pm, John Haywood wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:21 pm, Michael Adams wrote: > > Ensure you are not using the '8139too' driver. Its a little buggy and > > this shows during high bandwidth usage. BTW Donald Becker is THE linux > > network card driver guru, this site is predominantly based on his work > > and explains where i am coming from. > > http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html
Given that Donald Becker has completely panned the 8139too driver, why is it included in the Mandrake distribution? I would think that they'd only want the better code, instead of a module denounced as "buggy" or at best a sub-optimal implementation.
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