Re: [2.5.24] RTL8139: ioctl(SIOCGIFHWADDR): No such device

From: Axel Siebenwirth (axel@hh59.org)
Date: Tue Jul 09 2002 - 07:55:21 EST


Hi!

Kai Germaschewski schrieb am Donnerstag, den 04. Juli 2002:

> On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Axel Siebenwirth wrote:
>
> > Since I cannot initialize the network device eth1 for the RTL8139 card, I
> > thought your changes about net_dev_init
> >
> > <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
> > Make net_dev_init() an __initcall
> >
> > may have caused this.
>
> Yes, that seems quite possible. I'll submit a patch which fixes this
> shortly. In the mean time, you could try to find the __initcall line
> in net/core/dev.c, and replace __initcall by subsys_initcall.
>
> If you do so, please let me know if it fixes the problem for you.
>

Still the same problem in 2.5.25. Replacing __initcall with subsys_initcall
fixes it.

Regards,
Axel
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