Re: sky2 eth device with Gigabyte 965P-S3 motherboard

Tom St Denis
2006-09-22T13:38:50Z

On 9/22/06, Tom St Denis <tomstdenis@gmail.com> wrote:
> This won't be fixed as part of 2.6.18.x? Looking at the source for
> the latest gentoo-sources in the 2.6.17 stream I don't see ID 4364 in
> the source for sky2.c [sky2_id_table[]]. So why is it detected and
> working there but not in 2.6.18?
>
> I'll try adding the device to the table and see what happens.

Adding the line to the table works now. [yipee, I get proper SATA and
net now woot!]

May I request that someone insert that one line to drivers/net/sky2.c
before 2.6.19?

--- sky2.old 2006-09-22 21:34:36.000000000 +0000
+++ sky2.c 2006-09-22 21:28:03.000000000 +0000
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4361) },
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4362) },
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4363) },
+ { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4364) },
{ 0 }
};

[yeah I know not a normal patch ... I'm also not a kernel developer...]

I'm still confused on how it works in 2.6.17 without the ID?

Thanks,
Tom