On Monday 13 February 2006 11:58, you wrote:

Hi,

As I'm sure the drivers/net maintainers are well aware, SysKonnect constantly 
update their sk98lin/sky2 driver without bothering to sync their changes with 
the official linux kernel.

I quickly downloaded driver version 8.31 from http://www.skd.de/ today and 
used the install script to generate a diff against 2.6.16-rc3. Even after 
fixing up some DOS EOLs in the package, the diff was still well over 1.5MBs. 
This is an enormous number of changes.

The reason I'm posting is that my DFI LanParty-UT SLI-D works with this 
version of the driver, but not the version 2.6.16-rc3.

[alistair] 10:55 [~] dmesg | grep sk98lin
sk98lin: Could not read VPD data.
sk98lin: probe of 0000:01:0a.0 failed with error -5

I wonder if it's worth just identifying the "quick fix" (I've seen workarounds 
for corrupt VPDs like mine) or whether a general merge up would be 
beneficial..

If nobody's maintaining this driver I wouldn't mind helping out.

hi,
as i do have the same problem i may help you out.

at first, syskonnect did send their kernel diffs/patches but they we're rejected caused
by coding style, indention and some people thinking that things can be done better.

i personally do apply these drivers with the generate patch function of the install.sh.

there were small modifications within kernel 2.6.16 with i also sended as a diff to syskonnect, 
but got not reply.

i attached the diff, maybe it helps ya out. it works with my 2 onboard marvell yukon gbit adapters.

regards
marcel