[Voyage-linux] Kernel Module for Natsemi

[Mike O'Connor]

Hi Joe

I'm have a 2.6.9 with 15 vlan's active, never had any trouble with the 
2.6 kernel e100 and the e1000

Cheers
Mike




Joe Nelson wrote:

> Mike,
>
> Thanks for that tip. I was able to get the e100 working really well on 
> a 2.4 kernel but not on a 2.6.  It says its supposed to support 2.6.  
> Do you happen to know what kernel you were running?
>
> Thank you
>
> On 9/8/05, *Mike O'Connor* <mike at pineview.net 
> <mailto:mike at pineview.net>> wrote:
>
>     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
>     <mailto: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 outdated version.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.
>     >> >
>     >> > --
>     >> > Joe Nelson
>     >> > Air Wired
>     >> > http://www.airwired.net
>     >> >
>     >>
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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
>     >>
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > --
>     > Joe Nelson
>     > Air Wired
>     > http://www.airwired.net
>
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>
> -- 
> Joe Nelson
> Air Wired
> http://www.airwired.net