On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Bob Wirka wrote:
Since I don't know how to pass the io address and irq number to the kernel, I've hard-coded them into the driver's init function (which I don't see being called).
As you suspect the key is getting the driver init function called during the kernel boot. In addition, if the souces is primarily build for being a module some small pieces of glue may be missing.
In the 2.4 kernel there is a couple of methods a network driver gets initialized
* Module init function when being loaded as a module.
* Static tables in the main kernel, listing the "older" compiled-in network driver not using the dynamic/automatic initialization methods. Seen in in most (if not all) non-PCI drivers.
* The dynamic/automatic module_init registered function which is a unification of interface for modules and statically linked modules, simplifying matters greatly.
For statically linked modules to get initialized they must use one of the last two..
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