From: "Guillaume Cottenceau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Robert Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 15:12, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > > Something has changed on the boot disk image since then! > > > > > > Yes we now use 2.4.21-6mdkBOOT, we used the 9.1 one for ages > > > (think Ron Stodden's concerns). It probably kind of broke the > > > pcnet32 driver then :/. > > > > Does that mean that someone is working on a fix? I like the way you > > Not necessarily :). > > For us to fix a kernel driver, we first need to consider it's > real important compared to all the other much important things we > need to do in the kernel. Second, we need to reproduce it here. > Third, we need to fix it but each kernel "area" needs some sort > of special knowledge I guess, and I'm not sure juan is > super-expert for every possible drivers out there :). > [...] The pcnet32 driver in kernel.org 2.4.21 final was semi-broken, as it works for some, and not for others... It got fixed in one of the 2.4.22-pre updates, but I don't recall wich...
An easy solution is grab the pcnet32 from the latest pre, and merge it into current mdk kernel... It's a funny thing about 2 network cards, one is the pcnet32, and the other is via-rhine... They get broken every once in a while or have a lot of trouble, often due to poor hw implementation, or because of that the code for them is not in good shape due to different reasons... :-( I know... I have had them both... Now I only have a pcnet32, wich isn't that great under hevy load... Regards Thomas
