On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 19:54, John McBride wrote: > I just received an email from initio.com--they have no plans to support > the 2.6 kernel. I don't think initio were supporting the 2.4 kernel either, at least not recently. The Linux driver on the advansys.com website is 3.3g; the version shipping with current 2.6 kernels is labelled 3.3GJD (dated 10/14/02) but has been patched numerous times since then without updating the changelog in the file. > Could it be that the chipset has unworkable flaws or something? There is > a popular network card that has a similar issue--the chipset itself has > a flaw that thrashes arp packets kind of at random. It "works" but it > certainly doesn't "work right". I recently pulled all of those out of > our boxes, too...they were in storage (thus free and available to me) > because the MS windows boxes had so many issues with them, they didn't > want them in those boxes. I don't think it's that; I just don't think they want to support a product they're not selling any more. > It might be better to just let these cards die. A reasonable option for most people probably, but then I'd have to go out and buy another SCSI card, which I'd rather not do... Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
