new e1000 drivers

[Robert Morris]

Giorgio,

The old e1000 driver was not compatible with newer Intel e1000 cards,
and was not compatible with Linux 2.4.x; the new driver fixes that.  I
believe the current driver is faster than the numbers I report on that
web page.

Robert

> From: "Giorgio Calarco" <gcalarco at deis.unibo.it>
> To: <click at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>
> Subject: new e1000 drivers
> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:18:09 +0100
> Organization: DEIS
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've noticed that together with click 1.3pre1, you are offering 
> also a new version of the e1000 driver (4.3.15).
>  Is it possible to know which improvements are offered and if
> you have some additional documentation about the new driver 
> (are the performance the same that i found 
> at http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~rtm/e1000/ ?).
> 
> thx
> 
> giorgio
> 
>