Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looking at the eepro100 driver in etherboot reveals an aging 2.2-era > driver. If there are bug updates in later Linux kernels for eepro100, they > probably won't make it easily into the old eepro100 driver in Etherboot.
It is worth noting that the etherboot driver is more stable by an order of magnitude than the kernel eepro100 driver. Simply because it is much stupider. I have had more than one system where etherboot worked fine but the kernel had problems both 2.2 and 2.4. There are advantages to using hardware in it's slowest least performant mode. This is why I don't think the kernel driver updates are quite as important. Eric
