Re: rtl8139too in 2.4.5

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Sun, 3 Jun 2001 18:41:52 +0200 (MEST)

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> My RTL8139 (Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139A')
> was fine in 2.4.3 and doesnt work in 2.4.5.
> Copying the 2.4.3 version of 8139too.c makes things work again.
>
> Since lots of people complained about this, I have not tried to
> debug - maybe a fixed version already exists?

We upgraded to 2.4.5-ac2 for some test, noted that the ethernet card
was agian in 6-packets-per-second mode (i.e. very slow) and then
continued to 2.4.5-ac4 where the driver was reverted to the one in
2.4.3. That worked.

Roger. 

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