Re: What Hardware?

[Joe Cooper <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

eepro works great for us, in all of the Red Hat kernels (we build a 
heavily modified kernel based off of the Red Hat RPM--and in the bad old 
days before the eepro drivers got fixed in the Red Hat kernels I had to 
patch in the fixed driver from Donald Becker's site, but that was a long 
time ago).
So no worries there.  Intel makes a good NIC chipset as far as I can see.

Peter Mueller wrote:

> > Thanks so far for the comments. One question still tho'. The most
> > popular built in NIC seems to be the eepro100. Section 23.11 of the
> > LVS-HOWTO indicates some problems with 2.2.12 & 2.2.13 kernels. I know
> > that's some time ago - but...problems have been recognised. 
> > What kernels
> > do you run? I take it that you've seen little evidence of the problems
> > mentioned in the HOWTO.
> I haven't confirmed this, but kernel traffic pointed out by Julian from oct
> last year indicated 2.4.10 or greater should be ok.  Also the new intel
> driver for linux seems ok, too.
>
> I think 2.2.20 contains the right bugfixes.  I'm certain major distros like
> RedHat or Suse or Debian have good eepro100 drivers.
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