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Subject: Re: 3c59x problem with 2.4.6-test[34]
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Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> Okay.  First an odd part.  When the card does not work, I didn't get
>  anything in the syslog with debug=7, but I did get plenty when it works.

Well that's a big hint.  If no debug output comes out then the driver
simply isn't being executed.  You'll need to investigate and report on this
further.  Make sure that you've set `dmesg -n 7' of course...