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I'll second that, I'm running the driver on 5 production machines with
no/less problems, and I don't have to worry about the ethernet staying
dead if someone happens to unplug a cable to rearrange things...

Charles

On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Narvi wrote:

> 
> I do know the de driver is a bad topic, but:
> 
> Could the de driver updated by Matt please be brought into -stable?
> 
> 1) I, as I also think many others, can testify that the driver is endeed
> stabele, with no panicks, mysterious reboots, downtime, or generally any
> other complaints.
> 
> 2) It is really ungood to be patcjing and patching the system all over
> again (I mean, replacing the driver) each time I cvsup and happen to build
> a new kernel on my personal machine (or build a new one to fix a hole).
> 
> The current situation is everything but the *Right Thing*. :-(
> 
> 	Sander
>