From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262788AbVGML5F (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 07:57:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262812AbVGML5E (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 07:57:04 -0400 Received: from nijmegen.renzel.net ([195.243.213.130]:15821 "EHLO mx1.renzel.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262788AbVGML47 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 07:56:59 -0400 From: Mws To: Daniel Drake , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: SysKonnect ethernet support for Asus A8VE Deluxe Motherboard? User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <42D3FDF5.4090501@travellingkiwi.com> <42D50033.9040009@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <42D50033.9040009@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:57:11 +0200 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1227648.Nt4HjROqG0"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200507131357.16969.mws@twisted-brains.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart1227648.Nt4HjROqG0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 13 July 2005 13:51, you wrote: > Hamish Marson wrote: > > I just installed Gentoo distribution on a new PC for a friend who's > > new to Linux, and discovered that although SysKonnect kindly provide > > full source code drivers for their various products on their website, > > that even the latest released kernel sources (i.e. 2.6.12) still don't > > support the device on this motherboard (Along with a whole host of > > other PCI id's that appear in the syskonnect sources). >=20 > Gentoo 2.6.12 kernels provide the skge driver which supports this hardwar= e (I > believe). skge will be included in mainline 2.6.13. >=20 > > I've logged a bug on gentoo.org about it, but thought I'd ask, if > > there's any reason that the syskonnect (sk98lin) drivers are so back > > leve in the kernel sources when syskonnect seem to have published the > > drivers for so many more of their devices in source... >=20 > The driver updates that syskonnect released are ugly and have been reject= ed by > the network driver maintainers. skge was written as a response to this. >=20 > The very latest sk98lin updates add support for the new Yukon-II PCI-expr= ess > adapters. These are not supported by skge -- the Yukon-II is very differe= nt > and will eventually be supported by a separate driver. The techniques whi= ch > sk98lin uses to support two vastly different network chipsets (yukon/yuko= n-II) > in the same driver are generally not accepted in the kernel. but they have one advantage for now. they do work. i am using them for about 9 months now including upgrades. regards marcel >=20 > Daniel > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >=20 --nextPart1227648.Nt4HjROqG0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBC1QGcPpA+SyJsko8RArU2AKCDb92uHlMPo789rNcUCepRQcPY+ACdHlUF XCJV9RL3EEvv1zJwR5+log8= =RNif -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1227648.Nt4HjROqG0--