[Devil-Linux-discuss] Backport of skge driver for Marvell NICs

[Peter D. <gat...@ya...>]

I have a bunch of machines with 3Com/Marvell NICs, I used to have a bunch of
pretty obscure network problems (particularly communicating with WinXP), that
mostly went away after I switched from "sk98lin" to the new "skge" driver.
Unfortunately, I have similar problems with some machines running Devil-Linux and
this driver is only included in the 2.6.x kernel.

I looked all over the internet for a backport of this driver for the 2.4.x kernel.
The only location I could find is:

http://linux.1wt.eu/kernel/patches-2.4.33-wt3/pool/2.4.33-skge-1.6-1-glue.diff
http://linux.1wt.eu/kernel/patches-2.4.33-wt3/pool/2.4.33-skge-1.6-2-files.diff
http://linux.1wt.eu/kernel/patches-2.4.33-wt3/pool/2.4.33-skge-1.6-3-build.diff
http://linux.1wt.eu/kernel/patches-2.4.33-wt3/pool/2.4.33-skge-1.6-4-build.diff
(I couldn't even figure out who is the author/maintainer of these kernel patches)

It would be nice to have this driver included in Devil Linux. Maybe someone knows
a more "official" source for this backport? I personally tried these patches with
the current 1.2 Devil from CVS - I didn't test it very thoroughly yet, but it also
seems to work with much better performance in the 2.4.33 kernel.

(Btw.: There seems to be a little problem with the build dependencies:
Building cpqarrayd and quagga both failed because of misssing snmp)

Regards,
                               Peter Daum