On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Jim Roland wrote: > Check out http://www.scyld.com/network/ this will contain Donald Becker's > current drivers for NICs under Linux (found via google). Any references in > search engines to downloading NIC drivers from NASA will either be broken or > old. Mr. Becker doesn't work fulltime for NASA anymore, but is still one of > those NASA geeks that all of us wish we could have been. :) > Yes, thanks. I had already looked at those pages though. The new NatSemi chipsets don't seem to be fully up and running yet. You can find Becker's page for this driver at http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html >From reading the archives, it looks like many of the drivers on Mr Becker's page are for his own version of the kernel? This would explain my lack of luck trying to shove his ns820.c into a stock 2.4.2 kernel. And just to show you how ignorant I am of kernel programming, I've attached my childish attempt to insert a square peg in a round hole. -- Ron Alford, KB0NUV http://volus.net/~ronwalf ----------------------------------------------------- System hosed. Would you like to continue? [Y]:
From ronwalf@wam.umd.edu Sat Jul 7 09:34:29 2001 Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 19:53:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Ron Alford <ronwalf@wam.umd.edu> To: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com> Subject: Re: Linksys gigabit card On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Donald Becker wrote: > What chip does that card use? The Natsemi 83820/83821 chip? > If so, ns820.c should work. > Ok, thanks! I'm playing around with it now, I'll let you know how it goes. I was trying to find a mailing list for this, but all I found were more specific ones (like the Vortex list) Anyway Feed back from trying to install it: 0) ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/ns820.c doesn't exist as linked to from http://www.scyld.com/pub/network/natsemi.html ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/test/ns820.c exists 1) ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/test/Makefile Seems to have a cvs conflict on line 86? From that point line: <<<<<<< Makefile rpm: netdrivers.tgz rpm -ta $^ ======= rpm: netdrivers.tgz rpm -ta netdrivers.tgz >>>>>>> 1.18 ... 2) Using Redhat 7.1, kernel 2.4.2 Had to comment out any references to net_device.interrupt, net_device.start and net_device.stop to get it to compile at all Probably not the right thing to do. I didn't get the far anyway though, I had problems in pci-scan.c: Command line: # kgcc -I/usr/src/linux/include -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -O6 -c pci-scan.c # insmod pci-scan.o pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol pci_write_config_byte pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol apm_register_callback pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol kmalloc pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol pci_find_class pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol __check_region pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol pci_read_config_byte pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol pci_read_config_dword pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol apm_unregister_callback pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol __ioremap pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol pci_read_config_word pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol kfree pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol pci_set_master pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol pci_write_config_dword pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol pci_write_config_word pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol printk pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol ioport_resource 3) The comments in ns820.c reference a non-existant page http://www.scyld.com/network/netsemi.html It should probably be "natsemi" :) Still messing with things... Thanks, Ron Alford -- Ron Alford, KB0NUV http://volus.net/~ronwalf ----------------------------------------------------- System hosed. Would you like to continue? [Y]:
