David S. Miller: > Great, now add the following patch below and let me know what it does > and prints out now. tg3.c:v0.90 (Feb 25, 2002) DEBUG: smallest_limit is 9897 DEBUG: read_partno returned -19 tg3: Problem fetching invariants of chip, aborting. > If the module still fails to load because of the -EBUSY error (ie. the > "read_partno returns -19" thing happens again), bring > drivers/net/tg3.c into an editor and go to around line 4185 and change > the line that reads: > [snipp] > And see if it works then. PLEASE type sync a few times before trying > to load the module in this case as it could very well hang your > machine. Didn't work, didn't hang the box either :) Any more ideas? :) -- Thomas - : 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