Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 08:22:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Donald Becker <becker@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov>
To: linux-vortex@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov
Subject: State of the Driver (3c59x.c)

I'm leaving today for a sailing trip, and from there I'll be going to
Usenix.  That means about three weeks before any possible driver updates, and
likely that long before I can respond to any messages.

I've put the latest drivers version on
    ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/test/3c59x.c

This driver version supports a few new chip PCI IDs, and attempts to prevent 
Cyclone cards from being forced to an invalid media type.

Known issues remaining.
   Built-in Laptop implementation (3c555?) of the Cyclone reportedly cannot
   read the EEPROM.

   A reported unreliability with the Vortex chip that I've been unable to
   track down (everyone was happy with 0.49, but the near-identical code in
   0.99+ causes problems).

Since I'll be gone, please agressively answer questions, test code and
terminate list spammers ;->.

If the new version works for everyone, please inform Alan Cox that it's time
for the version number to be bumped to 1.00 and the driver to be put in the
kernel.

Donald Becker					  becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center,  Greenbelt, MD.  20771
301-286-0882	     http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/people/becker/whoiam.html