Re: pre7 and ne2k

Thomas Davis (ratbert@netk.com)
Sat, 23 Aug 1997 17:15:00 -0500 (CDT)


On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Dave Wreski wrote:

>
>
> > Just comment out line 79 in ../linux/drivers/net/ne.c
> >
> > BTW. My clone NE2000 works fine in pre-2.0.31-6 and -7.
>
> You got NE2000 support to compile in pre7? Hmm.. Well, some combination
> of options causes it to fail. I used the ne.o and 8390.o from pre6, and
> thats fine. I just wanted to continue testing...
>

Most likely because you turned on PCI support.

I have several machines running pre7, with NE2k support turned on, no
compile problem.

But, these are 486/386 based machines, doing PPP/IP/IPX routing.

So far, so good.