Re: Lance/ PCnet32 driver in 2.1.84

Thomas Bogendoerfer (tsbogend@alpha.franken.de)
Thu, 5 Feb 1998 22:06:31 +0100


On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 02:50:13PM -0600, Evan Jeffrey wrote:
>
> I have a 486 MASQ box that I attempted to upgrade to 2.1.84... It has 1
> BocaLan VLB, which is a Vesa bus PCnet/32 card, and an HP Lance/ISA card.
> the new kernel succesfully configures the ISA card, but not the VLB. Here
> is syslog output:

Does your motherboard has a PCI bus (and a PCI bios, which gets detected
by Linux) ? If yes, here is a fix for the pcnet driver.

--- pcnet32.c.orig Thu Feb 5 22:04:22 1998
+++ pcnet32.c Thu Feb 5 22:04:48 1998
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@
}
return 0;
}
- } else
+ }
#endif /* defined(CONFIG_PCI) */

/* now look for PCnet32 VLB cards */

Thomas.

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