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

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Hey Peter,

we really try to avoid adding Kernel patches whenever possible, since this
is a nightmare every time a new Kernel comes out. I'm sorry to say this,
but you most likely have to keep compiling your own modified version of
DL.
We can confirm the problem with cpqarrayd and quagga of misssing snmp.
Alberto is looking into it.

Heiko

On Fri, December 29, 2006 13:45, Peter Daum wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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