It seems the cleaning up of the network drivers has been a tad too
aggressive :) There is no init_etherdev() anymore in 3c509.c
The following patch seems to solve the problem.
(the code is taken from a working test10pre5)
Cheers,
lg
--- 3c509.c.test10-broken Wed Nov 1 17:12:08 2000
+++ 3c509.c Wed Nov 1 17:13:37 2000
@@ -434,6 +434,13 @@
/* Free the interrupt so that some other card can use it. */
outw(0x0f00, ioaddr + WN0_IRQ);
found:
+ if (dev == NULL) {
+ dev = init_etherdev(dev, sizeof(struct el3_private));
+ if (dev == NULL) {
+ release_region(ioaddr, EL3_IO_EXTENT);
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
+ }
memcpy(dev->dev_addr, phys_addr, sizeof(phys_addr));
dev->base_addr = ioaddr;
dev->irq = irq;
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