[Voyage-linux] Kernel Module for Natsemi

[Mike O'Connor]

Hi Joe

Umm I just went back thought my notes, the eepro100 did not work, I had to
move to the e100.
This is the driver I have used ever since for the intel 100mb cards.

Sorry
Mike


> I have seen that mentioned on many VLAN lists so I tried an Intel card
> with  the eepro100 module in the PCI slot of my Soekris and it still
> wouldn't  work. Basically it wouldn't let me set the MTU to 1504. Its
> good to hear  that you've used eepro100 successfully. I either have an
> old version of the  module or I'm doing something wrong in the vlan
> setup.
>
> On 9/8/05, Mike O'Connor <mike at pineview.net> wrote:
>>
>> Joe Nelson wrote:
>>
>> > I've had a real tough time getting the natsemi driver to work with
>> > my VLANs. I may be wrong, but I believe that I may just have an
>> > outdated version. Does anyone know how recent the kernel module for
>> > natsemi (ethernet on Soekris 4501 board) is? I've tried to get VLANs
>> > working with other cards as well - Intel Pro 100 (eepro100 module)
>> > and Realtek (8139too module). Nothing seems to work. I'm running on
>> > the 2.6.8 kernel. From what I've read, all the newer drivers for
>> > these ethernet chipsets support VLANs. Does anyone have any insight?
>> > Thanks.
>> >
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>> > Joe Nelson
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>> Hi Joe
>>
>> I have not tried the natsemi driver with VLAN's but will say that in
>> my experaince a large number of the ethernet drivers in the kernel do
>> not support VLAN's.
>>
>> The only drivers drivers I have ever used successfully are eepro100
>> and the intel drivers e100 and e1000. For example none of the 3com
>> drivers that I tested worked with VLAN's.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Mike
>>
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> Joe Nelson
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