[eepro100] A Linux driver from Intel ?!!

[Tim Cutts]

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:28:09PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> Pedro Ribeiro wrote:
> > 
> > I'v noticed that Intel has in their site a linux driver for the pro100
> > series ethernet adapters ...
> > Has anyone tryed it ?
> > How good is it ?
> 
> It performed better for me on the 2.2.19 and the 2.4.3
> kernels.  The eepro driver would complain about interrupts
> sometimes, and go real slow when I tried to force lots
> (~70Mbps bi-directional) over it.  The e100 did not seem to
> have those problems, even at high speeds...
> 
> That said, I've been running the eepro100 driver on
> the 2.4.4 kernel lately, at slower (~40Mbps) speeds and it
> has been doing fine...

For me, on STL2 motherboards, the e100 driver version 1.5.5a on kernel
2.2.19 was dreadful.  I've gone back to the eepro100 driver, which
itself isn't perfect on these new chips.  It definitely seems to depend
closely on precisely which chip variant you are using as to which driver
is better.

Tim.

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