Re: rtl8139.c and 802.1q vlan

Did anyone get back to you on this? I was honestly curious about the 
answer as well...

As far as I could tell on Ben Greer's site, the realtek cards were 
listed in his "functioning" list. However, I don't know what version of 
the driver that was applicable to -> given the timeframe, it may well 
have been tested on this version of the driver (rtl8139, as opposed to 
the now mainstream kernel drivers) instead.

Let me know how it goes at any rate... I've got some plans for the 
openbrick boxes, and they use realtek cards AFAICT.

Cheers,
Liam

Paul Hampson wrote:

>At http://www.geocities.co.jp/AnimeComic-White/6586/diff-rtl8139.c.txt
>there is a diff against an _old_ version of rtl8139.c to
>make it support 802.1Q vlans in Linux with an MTU of 1500...
>
>I've had a look, and it looks like this code still exists
>in the form described in the patch...
>
>Is this patch unneccessary, or is there some other reason
>it was not integrated? (The main thing it does is add
>four bytes the the transmit bounce buffer size...)
>
>I'm trying to track down a probable MTU problem with my
>highly-VLAN'd network, and the 8139too driver's the only
>one involved that doesn't specifically mention VLANs, and
>I want to know if I have to modify the driver from Scyld
>before I compile and install it to replace the 8193too
>driver. (This is on a PowerPC if it makes a difference.)
>
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