When I'm done with my VLAN stuff I may have some input on this for
Natsemi, Intel and hopefully Realtek. I'll keep you posted.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/8/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Punky Tse</b> <<a href="mailto:punkytse@punknix.com">punkytse@punknix.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">If anybody know if there are workable kernel patches for VLAN support in<br>various NIC drivers, please let me know. I will incorporate them in the
<br>next kernel update.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Mike O'Connor wrote:<br><br>> Joe Nelson wrote:<br>><br>>> I've had a real tough time getting the natsemi driver to work with my<br>>> VLANs. I may be wrong, but I believe that I may just have an
<br>>> outdated version. Does anyone know how recent the kernel module for<br>>> natsemi (ethernet on Soekris 4501 board) is? I've tried to get VLANs<br>>> working with other cards as well - Intel Pro 100 (eepro100 module)
<br>>> and Realtek (8139too module). Nothing seems to work. I'm running on<br>>> the 2.6.8 kernel. From what I've read, all the newer drivers for<br>>> these ethernet chipsets support VLANs. Does anyone have any
<br>>> insight? Thanks.<br>>><br>>> --<br>>> Joe Nelson<br>>> Air Wired<br>>> <a href="http://www.airwired.net">http://www.airwired.net</a><br>>><br>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux</a><br>>><br>>><br>> Hi Joe<br>><br>> I have not tried the natsemi driver with VLAN's but will say that in<br>> my experaince a large number of the ethernet drivers in the kernel do
<br>> not support VLAN's.<br>><br>> The only drivers drivers I have ever used successfully are eepro100<br>> and the intel drivers e100 and e1000. For example none of the 3com<br>> drivers that I tested worked with VLAN's.
<br>><br>> Cheers<br>> Mike<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Voyage-linux mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Voyage-linux@list.voyage.hk">Voyage-linux@list.voyage.hk</a><br>
> <a href="http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux">http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux</a><br><br><br><br>--<br>Regards,<br>Punky<br>P U N K N ! X . c o m<br>Technology + Lifestyle<br>(<a href="http://www.punknix.com">
http://www.punknix.com</a>)<br><br>Voyage Linux<br>(<a href="http://www.voyage.hk/software/voyage.html">http://www.voyage.hk/software/voyage.html</a>)<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Joe Nelson
<br>Air Wired<br><a href="http://www.airwired.net">http://www.airwired.net</a>