RE: Intel-e1000 for Linux 2.0.36-pre14

Ofer Fryman (ofer@shunra.co.il)
Thu, 1 Mar 2001 19:21:24 +0200


I am upgrading to 2.2.x, but mean while I need e1000 driver to run on 2.0.x,
I'm sure that others might need it too.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jes Sorensen [mailto:jes@linuxcare.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 7:07 PM
To: Ofer Fryman
Cc: 'kernel@kvack.org'; 'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'
Subject: Re: Intel-e1000 for Linux 2.0.36-pre14

>>>>> "Ofer" == Ofer Fryman <ofer@shunra.co.il> writes:

Ofer> I need a giga fiber PMC cards for linux2.0.36-pre14, the only
Ofer> cards I know are either Intel based or level-one lxt-1001 card,
Ofer> the level-one lxt-1001 has very bad performance so I cannot use
Ofer> it.

I'd recommend you to upgrade to at least 2.2.x, the scalability of
2.0.x means there is really no good reason to spend time porting GigE
drivers to it.

Jes
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