On Monday 01 July 2002 11:06, Bob Miller wrote: > Mark Bigler wrote: > > I think the Linksys cards use the tulip driver. Although Linux > > kernel 2.2 had support for tulip, I seem to recall that tulip > > support in the 2.4 kernel is better. Early on there was 2.4 > > support for Potato, but I think that now if you want a packaged 2.4 > > kernel, you need to move to Woody. If you're brave, have a fast > > connection, and can burn CDs, you might want to try the Woody > > version of the Progeny Debian installer (PGI or piggy) sometime. > > Now hold on a minute. While there's nothing wrong with a little > Woody advocacy (-: , the tulip driver in 2.2 works fine. An ethernet > card is not sufficient reason to upgrade to Woody.
You're right. I was reflecting old rumors I'd heard of people having tulip troubles with the 2.2 kernel. Most likely all those problems were resolved long ago, probably in 2.2.19, and surely quite dead in 2.2.21. BTW, are 2.4 kernel-images still available for Potato? Thanks for the catch, Mark Bigler
