Re: vmlinuz-2.6.29-1-11May on IIfx

[Riccardo <riccardo@kaffe.org>]

Hi Brad,

On Thursday, May 14, 2009, at 11:09  PM, Brad Boyer wrote:

>> booting into 2.6.26 I see the driver used is the mac8390. From dmesg 
>> of
>> 2.6.26
>>
>> [42949395.010000] mac8390.c: v0.4 2001-05-15 David Huggins-Daines
>> <dhd@debian.org> and others
>> [42949395.030000] eth0: Memory length resource for slot A not found,
>> probing
>> [42949395.040000] eth0: EtherNet card in slot A (type apple)
>> [42949395.050000] MAC 00:80:ad:13:7c:d0 IRQ 57, 32 KB shared memory at
>> 0xfaad0000,  32-bit access.
>
> Did this ethernet card work in an older kernel? The card type detection
> in mac8390.c is partially based on guesses and just trying different
> cards, as I remember. It's possible that it's detecting the wrong type,
> particularly since it isn't finding all the NuBus ROM resources it is
> expecting to be present on this card type. I suspect that it's not
> accessing the card correctly. Both the error messages are that the
> card isn't in a sane state based on what the driver tried to do.

maybe I did not express myself clearly: in 2.6.29 the card doesn't work 
and I typed the error message manually,

I then rebooted into 2.6.26, where the card still worked, and pasted 
its dmesg.

Riccardo