Re: [PATCH 2.4] forcedeth

Manfred Spraul
2003-11-09T09:47:43Z

Markus wrote:

>I tested this driver for my Nforce2 mobo on 2.6.0-test9, and this driver
>seemed useless, it just printed some random numbers in my konsole (And
>trust me, it was hard to edit lilo.conf so I even could boot back to old
>kernel when all the numbers just were jumping around)
>
The driver has full debugging enabled, and that includes hexdumping the
start of every packet. This should disappear if you replace the "#if 1"
with "#if 0", around line 80.

> And it broke the
>other card too, ifconfig was right, now there was this card too, but no
>one from them worked. Thanks anyway.
>
Which other card? I'm interested in more details, please explain.

So far I received two bug reports:
- smp locking is broken (stupid bug, I have a fix)
- sometimes a wrong mac address is used (unresolved)

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Manfred