Re: Drivers under 2.4

Danny ter Haar (dth@lin-gen.com)
Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:24:01 +0000 (UTC)


Hans Grobler <grobh@sun.ac.za> wrote:
>The softnet changes are most likely the primary source of breakage (for
>network drivers).

I happen to have a multimedia box from siemens/fujitsu with a
cyrix processor, chipset and amd/lance ethernet chipset onboard.
It' working fine with 2.2.x but not with 2.4.x kernels with
the same driver version of the pcnet32 networkdriver.

2.4.0-ac4

Jan 9 17:09:53 multimedia kernel: Linux version 2.4.0-ac4 (root@ws1) (gcc version 2.95.3 20001229 (prerelease)) #2 Tue Jan 9 16:22:08 CET 2001
Jan 9 17:09:53 multimedia kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0f.0
Jan 9 17:09:53 multimedia kernel: eth0: PCnet/FAST III 79C973 at 0xfce0, 00 00 e2 24 41 1d
Jan 9 17:09:53 multimedia kernel: pcnet32: pcnet32_private lp=c3c80000 lp_dma_addr=0x3c80000 assigned IRQ 9.
Jan 9 17:09:53 multimedia kernel: pcnet32.c:v1.25kf 26.9.1999 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de

and 2.2.19pre7

Jan 10 20:46:15 multimedia kernel: Linux version 2.2.19pre7 (root@multimedia) (gcc version 2.95.3 20001229 (prerelease)) #2 Wed Jan 10 20:13:57 CET 2001
Jan 10 20:46:15 multimedia kernel: pcnet32.c: PCI bios is present, checking for devices...
Jan 10 20:46:15 multimedia kernel: Found PCnet/PCI at 0xfce0, irq 9.
Jan 10 20:46:15 multimedia kernel: eth0: PCnet/FAST III 79C973 at 0xfce0, 00 00 e2 24 41 1d assigned IRQ 9.
Jan 10 20:46:15 multimedia kernel: pcnet32.c:v1.25kf 26.9.1999 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de

Version number of the driver is the same but it doesn't work.

Any thoughts anyone ?

Danny
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