Survey: Linux kernel quality [LWN.net]

Survey: Linux kernel quality

Posted Jul 10, 2006 9:46 UTC (Mon) by gvegidy (subscriber, #5063)
In reply to: Survey: Linux kernel quality by cventers
Parent article: Survey: Linux kernel quality

drivers for sky2 seem to be hard to get correct.

the driver written by syskonnect/marvell themselves (sk98lin) works for
only about a day on one of my systems, I gave up contacting their support
after a bit of useless back and forth. A colleague told me that even their
windows driver sometimes hangs.

The moment Stephen Hemminger took up developing a clean linux driver I
thought the problems will be gone soon. But it looks like it's still a way
to go.

So stay away from sky2 nics if you can...

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sky2

Posted Jul 10, 2006 11:18 UTC (Mon) by dwmw2 (subscriber, #2063) [Link]

I spent a large part of the last couple of weeks watching the tennis by streaming MPEG from DVB-S out over my local network with a sky2 card. I didn't have a single lockup from the sky2. In fact, I'm listening to the radio the same way now, because I haven't bothered moving the satellite cable back to the standalone receiver box.

This is with the current Fedora (2.6.17) kernel, which I believe has no patches to the sky2 driver.

sky2

Posted Jul 11, 2006 17:29 UTC (Tue) by unaiur (subscriber, #3563) [Link]

To watch a dvb channel over a gigabit ethernet card isn't any serious
test.

I've usign a traffic generator over these cards and they hang before
processing 1 billion packets (about 10 minutes). These cards are buggy
(or at least, the dual port PCI Express x4 card).

sky2

Posted Jul 11, 2006 20:07 UTC (Tue) by dwmw2 (subscriber, #2063) [Link]

To watch a dvb channel over a gigabit ethernet card isn't any serious test.

True. I mention it mainly because it used to fail.