On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:51:03PM +0000, John P. Looney wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:02:57PM +0000, Niall O Broin mentioned:
> > However, I got 2.4.18 last night and that has cured the sshd weirdness
> > (sshing into the box killed it dead, leaving keyboard LEDs flashing) and I'm
> > putting that down to NIC drivers - this box has dual integrated Intel EEpro
> > 100 and this chipset has issues, to say the least of it. Intel have released
> > a driver which seems more solid (at least in the past) than the stock kernel
> > one but they've issued it under some arse of alicense which means that it
> > can't be included in the mainstream kernel.
>> Well, it's a BSD licence...not that bad...
I'm not really that much of a license zealot - happen to think the GPL is on
the side of justice in that you're welcome to take, but if you take and you
make money, then you must give back - it just seems reasonable to a non
Microsoft executive.
The only thing that bugs me is that I keep running into these EEpro NICs
(you know where I first encountered them, John) and they cause me various
problems which I wouldn't have if Intel would just contribute their code to
the kernel. Incidentally, the bizarre problem I had whereby the machine in
question crashes if I attempt to ssh to it is NOT resolved by using the
Intel driver, although as mentioned it has been resolved by moving to 2.4.18
(from 2.4.10).
Niall
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