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Re: testing wanted: debian-installer, now with 2.6.15



On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 03:41:24AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 
> So should the 21040 and 21041 be switched from de2104x to de4x5, or should
> de2104x be added to the installer?  I seem to recall that I had problems
> with de2104x on my 21040 as well; and at least in 2.6.15, the tulip driver
> doesn't work at all for my card, I have to use de4x5.
> 
> The discover1-data package seems to have de4x5 listed for *all* of these PCI
> IDs, but I think we may be using the kernel's map now with 2.6 (via udev).

I don't know of any problems using "tulip" on the 2114x chipsets. And
I don't think full duplex will significantly increase the throughput
of a 2104x chipset, so, yes, I'd think that using de4x5 for any 2104x
and tulip fo any 2114x might be the way to go...

 --Jay++

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