Re: 2.4.20

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Avin Sigurani wrote:

> Do your rtl8139  and pci-scan drivers work at all with
> kernel 2.4.20?

Yes.
What problem are you seeing?

The primary problem I've seen with 2.4.20 and 2.4.21 are
  The new kernel are much less robust with laptop suspend.  I used to go
     months between laptop reboots, now it's just a few suspend cycles
     between hangs.
  The new kernels have new interrupt mapping problems.

> I have not had a
> functioning driver for my D-link DFE-690TXD card in a
> while.  Is there another driver available perhaps?
> 
> PS: What is up with this virus found message in the
> digest?  Could it be true that your e-mails contain
> attachments, or is this a bug in their virus scanner? 

It's a bug in their virus scanner.

The lists have been each getting a few hundred virus messages a day.
The virus forges the return address using the same address list, so that
means about the same number of virus-laden emails appear to be coming
from the list.  The dam*n virus scanners, which should know that this
virus forges the reply-to address, take the opportunity to advertise by
bouncing the message.  While I can filter the virus, each virus scanner
has a unique format so they often require moderating by hand.  In this
case they managed to slip through because they appeared to come from a
list subscriber.

This current round of virii has been very time consuming and expensive.
I've been spending 20-60 minutes a day just moderating the lists.  And
at over 100KB each, 200-400 a day for each of about 20 lists it's
responsible for the majority of our bandwidth use this month.  Yet this
is publicized as a "computer" problem not as "flawed Microsoft feature"
problem.

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