public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Johan <johan@ccs.neu.edu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: status of via velocity in 2.6.9
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 19:07:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41B4F447.2060808@ccs.neu.edu> (raw)

How 'working' are the via velocity drivers in 2.6.9?

For better or worse, the cheapest gigabit card I could find has the 
vt6122 chip, which seems to want the velocity drivers. (*)

Unfortunately, while they (the driver and card, that is) seem at first 
to work fine, auto negotiating a gigabit connection with my hub, the 
network stops working after 5 ish minutes (could be function of bytes 
tx'ed as well, I guess). restarting the network (appart from a kernel 
upgrade, the box is redhat fc2) fixes the problem... for another 5 minutes.

Is this known behavior?

Thanks

Johan

(*) The card's box advertizes linux compatibility with RH 7.3 (2.4.18-3 
or later), which makes me wonder whether another driver may work better. 
  2.4.18-3 would seem to predate the via-velocity driver.




             reply	other threads:[~2004-12-07  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-07  0:07 Johan [this message]
2004-12-07  0:44 ` status of via velocity in 2.6.9 Francois Romieu
2004-12-07  1:23   ` Johan
2004-12-07  8:26     ` Francois Romieu
2004-12-07  8:08 ` Lenar Lõhmus
2004-12-07  8:21   ` Francois Romieu
2004-12-07 13:28 ` Alan Cox

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=41B4F447.2060808@ccs.neu.edu \
    --to=johan@ccs.neu.edu \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox