Re: Patch for mach ne

[Michael Casadevall]

Well, looking at the kernel, this driver was moved from ne.c to ne2k  
because ne.c was for ISA and then ne2k was created for PCI NE2000  
cards. The card is at the absolute bottom of the list. Anyway, I took  
a peak at the ne.c and ne2k.c drivers in Linux-2.6.17:

http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/lxr/source/drivers/net/ne.c - This has  
a Realtek driver defined, although with a different signature than mine

http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/lxr/source/drivers/net/ne2k-pci.c -  
Where the Realtek PCI 8029 driver went in Linux after leaving ne.c.  
Same card signature

In addition, my card at the bottom of the list so the ne.c driver  
would only try and load it if nothing else was detected. I do realize  
your concern, but looking through the network cards supported by our  
ne and ne2k, the PCI ID isn't used anywhere else as far as I can tell.
Michael

Michael

On Apr 11, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Thomas Schwinge wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 03:23:17AM -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote:
> > For anyone who's been following the epic story unfolding in IRC,
> > after a few days of fighting with it, I was able to get it working
> > (it was surprisingly easy after Tom got me pointed in the right
> > direction).
>
> No problem, I'm glad I was able to help.  :-)
>
>
> > Anyway, here's my patch
>
> Okay, obviously the patch works for you ;-) but what we also have  
> to make
> sure is that it won't break nic detection for others.  Now, I'm not at
> all into that pci ids (and whatnot) jumble, does somebody else have
> experiences with that?
>
> Who has a RealTek 8029 pci card that used to work before and could  
> verify
> that it still works with that patch applied?  Do we have any pointers
> that an equivalent patch was later applied to the source that nic  
> driver
> is from, the Linux kernel code?
>
>
> Regards,
>  Thomas