On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 13:58, Thomas Backlund wrote: > Viestissä Sunnuntai 27 Heinäkuu 2003 22:54, James Sparenberg kirjoitti: > > On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 08:19, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Two reasons I can think of. It's expected by people so they get less > > hassle including it than removing it. It's more of a pain to remove it > > from the kernel than it's worth. Again note that this is opinion not > > fact. I don't speak for them. > > > > james > > AFAIK the reason we need to keep the current 8139too is that is's > supports more functions that we actually use, and more cards, and it is > constantly updated, to get the bugs out of it (even by DB afaik...) > > One thing we could do is add the DB:s own driver as an alternative driver > for people to use just in case... I'll ask Juan/Nicolas what they think about > it... > That way everybody would be happy ;-) > > Regards > > Thomas
Sounds fair enough... IMHO Davicom and Realtek rank right up there with WD hard drives... but ... what do I know. Heck I'm trying to tell earthlink that DNS for one of their networks is down (I'm trying to send one of their customers mail.) and they keep telling me to turn off my computer disconnect all cables and restart the system. *sigh*. James > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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