On 24 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 24 August 2001, Donald Becker wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:50:25PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.9 so I would have support for the > > > > netgear fa311 NIC, specifically the natsemi driver. > > > > You didn't need to upgrade your kernel. > > http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html > > ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/natsemi.c > I had problems with this before I upgraded the kernel, I couldn't > compile the driver.
What problem did you have? With what kernel? > > As usual, my primary reply is that I don't support modified drivers. If > > you touch it, you should be willing to test and maintain the whole > > driver. > > I will debug problems that you can reproduce on an original driver. > > I haven't modified the driver. I got it with everything else when I > downloaded and compiled the 2.4.9 kernel. I'll go through the > webpage steps, but if you can tell me what to look for relating to > that error message and how I should fix it I'd appreciate it. The driver in 2.4 is a modified version of an older natsemi.c driver release. That's what I mean by modified -- not that you modified it yourself. The dp83815 datasheet is on line at www.natsemi.com, but it takes a long time to understand the implications of simple-looking driver changes by just reading the datasheet. One approach is to see if the driver from ftp.scyld.com works, and then track the driver changes. Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993
