Re: via-rhine driver

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: Mario Klebsch <address@hidden>
Subject: via-rhine driver
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 21:56:01 +0100

> 1. I configured grub to support three different network drivers
> (via-rhine, 3x90x and PCI based ne2k). The NIC in my test system was a
> via-rhine board. I added its PCI vendor- and device ID to the list of
> known PCI cards. But after executing the bootp command, my via-rhine
> was probed to be a 3c90x. :-( Of course, all paramerters (including the
> MAC-address) were wrong. It seems, the probe()-routines are not
> checking PCI-vendor&device-IDs.

Try the CVS version of GRUB.

> 2. My via-rhine does not work. I had a look on the source an I wonder,
> wether via-rhine is under active development. Is anybody is working on
> via-rhine.c? It would be a big help, if there is anybody to discuss
> internal problems with.

Please make sure that the problem is the via-rhine driver itself,
rather than because you enabled multiple network drivers.

Okuji