[ltp] a30 performance issue (related to ethernet?)

Richard Neill linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:58:12 +0000


Matt Graham wrote:
> From: Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk>

>>This reminds me of an issue I had with the A22p dropping the network 
>>every few minutes. My fix was to remove the e100 module (which is 
>>deprecated, and iirc unmaintained + buggy) and use the eepro100 module 
>>instead. Does that help?
> 
> 
> I think this is backwards.  In the 2.6.12 source, at least, eepro100's last
> revision entry in the history is in 2000, while e100's got entries for 2005. 
> Also, my A22p running kernel 2.6.10 will not work with eepro100, and it works
> just fine with e100.
> 

D'oh!  I know I was tired lst night, but really! Yes, I got it 
backwards, and e100 is correct.

Richard