Re: SysKonnect sk98lin Gigabit lan missing in action from 2.6.10 on

[Lawrence Walton <lawrence@the-penguin.otak.com>]

Jeff Garzik [jgarzik@pobox.com] wrote:
> maxer wrote:
> >What is the status of sk98lin? Do we have to wait until Syskonnect gets 
> >their act together
> >and write a new driver for 2.6.10?
> >
> >Their latest is Oct 2004 and not at all compatible with 2.6.10 and beyond.
> 
> I've been telling SysKonnect for _years_ that they need to split up 
> their patches, but they still keep sending ever-larger jumbo driver 
> update patches.
> 
> Stephen Hemminger split up their patch into a bunch of patches, and I 
> applied several of those.
> 
> Apparently, Stephen also got sick of trying to patch and clean sk98lin, 
> so he went and wrote his own "skge" driver.  It's available in my 
> netdev-2.6 queue, and should be in the latest -mm.
> 
> 	Jeff
> 
> 
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I have a SysKonnect card, and tried the skge driver (it's in the mm tree), with nominal testing 
I'd have to say it works well, if not better then the sk98lin driver.



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