From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Thomas Munck Steenholdt <tmus@tmus.dk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pcnet32 link detection patch proposal
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:45:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040220104521.4aaabd6e.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40365368.5020508@tmus.dk>
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 19:35:20 +0100 Thomas Munck Steenholdt <tmus@tmus.dk> wrote:
| Hi Guys!
|
| A lot of people have been experiencing problems with the pcnet32 nic
| driver that
| always returns link down on some devices (including the VMware vlance
| adapter).
|
| The patch makes sure that link is always reported as up (in contrast to
| always
| being rported as down) if the device is not MII capable. Devices that
| ARE MII
| capable will return whatever mii_link_ok() says.
|
| Please let be know what you think and possible give me a hint as to how
| I can
| make sure this fix gets included whereever such a patch should be included!
|
| Thanks a lot!
Hi,
There has been some recent pcnet32 driver activity on the netdev
mailing list. Try that list.
Recent patches have been from Don Fry (brazilnut@us.ibm.com).
Mail archives for it are here:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/archive/
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-20 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-20 18:35 Thomas Munck Steenholdt
2004-02-20 18:45 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2004-02-20 19:39 ` Thomas Munck Steenholdt
2004-02-20 19:41 ` Randy.Dunlap
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