Stefan Troeger wrote:

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 11:35 -0700, Tony Schlemmer wrote:

...

I was going to upgrade my kernel from the SuSE 5.2 supplied 2.0.33 to 2.0.34 and found that applying the normal 2.0.34 source patch trashes my kernel source base and I am forced to reinstall the kernel source. In [...] If I want to upgrade my kernel do I have to download a new 2.0.35 kernel source set from the SuSE FTP site? I tried the 2.0.34 patch from the

No need to download the complete kernel source. Just delete the package `lx_suse' (SuSE kernel) and install `linclude' and `linux' (they contain the official kernel source). Then apply the patch again.

Ciao, Stefan

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After installing the standard 2.0.33 kernel source from the SuSE 5.2 CDROM, I found that there wasn't any Epic 100 driver which I need for my SMC EtherPower II network card. I ended up downloading the whole SuSE 2.0.35 kernel source and installing that intead. First Impressions: The newer aic7xxx driver in the 2.0.35 kernel initializes my AHA2940UW card much quicker making the whole bootup process noticeably faster. Tony -- Anthony.Schlemmer@gte.net - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

Hubert Mantel wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 19, Anthony Schlemmer wrote:
> 
> > After installing the standard 2.0.33 kernel source from the SuSE 5.2
> > CDROM, I found that there wasn't any Epic 100 driver which I need for my
> > SMC EtherPower II network card. I ended up downloading the whole SuSE
> > 2.0.35 kernel source and installing that intead.
> 
> The epic100 driver is part of the official original 2.0.35
> 
> > First Impressions:
> >
> > The newer aic7xxx driver in the 2.0.35 kernel initializes my AHA2940UW
> > card much quicker making the whole bootup process noticeably faster.
> 
> Hmm, I think the default for the reset delay has changed.
> 
> > Tony
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Unfortunately the version of the Epic driver included in the 2.0.35
kernel (0.99B?) doesn't work correctly. I and others had alot of
problems with TX timeouts when running the card in 100BaseTX mode. I was
in touch with the driver's developer directly. After sending log files
with the relavent error messages and other debug information, the
problems were ironed out in subsequent releases of the driver. I'm
running two SuSE 5.2 systems both of which are using EtherPower II
cards. Anyone wanting to use the SMC EtherPower II card should be using
version 1.03 of the Epic 100 driver. 

Tony


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