On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:47:06PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > The e100 module is included, AFAIK this is an alternate driver for the > same card (intel EtherExpress Pro/100). I'm not sure why Herbert Xu > chose one over the other; I have heard of the eepro100 driver not > working well sometimes, but great other times; and the difference may be > moot for the installer. If there's a good reason to go with the e100 > driver, I suppose Herbert can tell us and ethdetect can be changed to > try to use it instead of the eepro100. Otherwise, I'd tend toward > swapping the eepro100 driver into the nic-modules udeb. It's 40k smaller > anyway!
The eepro100 driver is no longer maintained. So we should switch to the e100 driver. Of course it doesn't hurt to include eepro100 driver just in case there is a corner case for the e100 driver. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
