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). > > Gentoo 2.6.12 kernels provide the skge driver which supports this hardware (I > believe). skge will be included in mainline 2.6.13. > > > 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... > > The driver updates that syskonnect released are ugly and have been rejected by > the network driver maintainers. skge was written as a response to this. > > The very latest sk98lin updates add support for the new Yukon-II PCI-express > adapters. These are not supported by skge -- the Yukon-II is very different > and will eventually be supported by a separate driver. The techniques which > sk98lin uses to support two vastly different network chipsets (yukon/yukon-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 > > Daniel > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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