new eepro driver seems broken
I assume there is the same version of eepro driver in 2.2.21-pre2 and 2.4.17.
Version included in kernel 2.2.20 is broken, becouse sometime ethernet card "dies" - I can't ping it from outside. However, when eepro card is in server, and I ping workstation from there - card works again. So my current solution is script which pings everything in localnet all the time.
But new version works much worse for me. In 2.2.21-pre2 and 2.4.17 card never dies - it always work, but there are many problems with connections. I thought it's problem with MASQ, but it behaves exactly the same on 2.2 and 2.4. When I send single file by scp - I have transfer bigger than 100KB/s. But when I watch WWW or use p2p - transfer is very small or stops.
Driver from 2.2.20 works bad, newer driver works bad, too, but in another way. Where can I find older releases of eepro driver? How can I contact author (email from eepro.c doesn't work) ? Is anyone still using EtherExpress ISA 10 ?
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I assume there is the same version of eepro driver in 2.2.21-pre2 and 2.4.17.
Version included in kernel 2.2.20 is broken, becouse sometime ethernet card "dies" - I can't ping it from outside. However, when eepro card is in server, and I ping workstation from there - card works again. So my current solution is script which pings everything in localnet all the time.
yes, it's broken
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But new version works much worse for me. In 2.2.21-pre2 and 2.4.17 card never dies - it always work, but there are many problems with connections. I thought it's problem with MASQ, but it behaves exactly the same on 2.2 and 2.4. When I send single file by scp - I have transfer bigger than 100KB/s. But when I watch WWW or use p2p - transfer is very small or stops.
the 0.13 version had this mention: become stable. performance is scheduled for next versions. you may try eepro.c from 2.2.13 kernel but as i could see it's less stable than 0.13 version.
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Driver from 2.2.20 works bad, newer driver works bad, too, but in another way. Where can I find older releases of eepro driver? How can I contact author (email from
eepro.cdoesn't work) ? Is anyone still using EtherExpress ISA 10 ?
i think there's nobody else working on this driver right now. you may send questions to lkml with a copy to me.
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