Amit Kucheria wrote: > > Hi, > > I just tried compiling 2.4.14. At our installation we compile the > following network drivers in by default: > > 3c509, > 3c59x, > SMC Ultra, > Decchip tulip, > Etherexpress Pro/100, > SMC Etherpower II > > Now the machine that i was booting the kernel on (called testbed12) has a > _single_ 3c59x interface and an ATM interface (ENI55). The 2.2.18 kernels > had no problem with this. > But it seems the 2.4.14 kernels do! 2.4.14 detected it as an SMC Ultra and > gave me a *bonus* interface eth1 as 3c59x. Seems that the magical ISA probing for the smc-ultra decided that it detected a card, so it installed an ethernet interface for the non-card. Maybe if you explicitly specify the IO port address for your card the probe routine will correctly determine that the hardware is absent. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
