From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Bieringer Subject: Re: sundance driver does not work with D-Link DFE-580TX Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:43:53 +0200 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <57880000.1056026633@worker.muc.bieringer.de> References: <200305261604.h4QG4iQY020725@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: Maillist netdev In-Reply-To: <200305261604.h4QG4iQY020725@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> Content-Disposition: inline Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --On Monday, May 26, 2003 12:04:43 PM -0400 Michael Richardson wrote: > >>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Bieringer writes: > Peter> pls. take a look into: > > Peter> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69000 > > Peter> Looks like current included "sundance.c" driver doesn't work > proper Peter> together with current "mii.c" on a D-Link DFE-580TX. > > This is a redhat bug. Stock kernels do not have this problem. > Nor does pure-Becker code. I (also others independed) finally find the bug: RHL uses CONFIG_SUNDANCE_MMIO=y on kernel building which causes the problem. Looks like this option should be removed or the driver should be improved (perhaps autodetection?). Imho it doesn't make much sense to add an compile option which (in case of enabled) break usages of already available NICs. Peter -- Dr. Peter Bieringer http://www.bieringer.de/pb/ GPG/PGP Key 0x958F422D mailto: pb at bieringer dot de Deep Space 6 Co-Founder and Core Member http://www.deepspace6.net/