Bug#211128: Installer doesn't autoload eepro100
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:47:06PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> The e100 module is included, AFAIK this is an alternate driver for the
> same card (intel EtherExpress Pro/100). I'm not sure why Herbert Xu
> chose one over the other; I have heard of the eepro100 driver not
> working well sometimes, but great other times; and the difference may be
> moot for the installer. If there's a good reason to go with the e100
> driver, I suppose Herbert can tell us and ethdetect can be changed to
> try to use it instead of the eepro100. Otherwise, I'd tend toward
> swapping the eepro100 driver into the nic-modules udeb. It's 40k smaller
> anyway!
The eepro100 driver is no longer maintained. So we should switch to
the e100 driver. Of course it doesn't hurt to include eepro100 driver
just in case there is a corner case for the e100 driver.
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