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<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="forumline"> <tr> <th class="thCornerL" width="22%" height="26">Author</th> <th class="thCornerR">Message</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>john maclean</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 3:12 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Phew!</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>jebba</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:05 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">The e100 is removed from the linux-libre kernel. The eepro100 driver should work fine. Basically there are two drivers for the same hardware, one Free Software, one not, AFAICT.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>john maclean</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:36 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: intel e100</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">The Intel e100 driver may be included in the "non-free section". I'd like confirmation please. <br /> <br />Looking at linux-2.6.24.2/drivers/net/e100.c... <br /></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Quote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"> <br />e100.c: Intel(R) PRO/100 ethernet driver <br />.. <br />/********************************************************/ <br />/* Micro code for 8086:1229 Rev 8 */ <br />/********************************************************/ <br /> <br />/* Parameter values for the D101M B-step */ <br />#define D101M_CPUSAVER_TIMER_DWORD 78 <br />#define D101M_CPUSAVER_BUNDLE_DWORD 65 <br />#define D101M_CPUSAVER_MIN_SIZE_DWORD 126 <br /> <br />#define D101M_B_RCVBUNDLE_UCODE \ <br />{\ <br />0x00550215, 0xFFFF0437, 0xFFFFFFFF, 0x06A70789, 0xFFFFFFFF, 0x0558FFFF, \ <br />0x000C0001, 0x00101312, 0x000C0008, 0x00380216, \ <br />0x0010009C, 0x00204056, 0x002380CC, 0x00380056, \ <br />0x0010009C, 0x00244C0B, 0x00000800, 0x00124818, \ <br />0x00380438, 0x00000000, 0x00140000, 0x00380555, \ <br /> <br />...</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />That looks like binary shiznit to me. Is there an alternative for IBM laptops, particularly the X30s?</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> </table>
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