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NE2000 probe broken in 1.3.XX?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gilbert Callaghan)
Sun Sep 10 07:33:42 1995

From: gilbert@inviso.com (Gilbert Callaghan)
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu (Linux Net)
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 11:22:50 -0600 (CDT)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu (Linux Kernel)

I just recently upgraded from 1.2.8 to 1.3.24 to play with some of the
new toys in the kernel.  1.3.24 locks up at the NE*000 probe:

    NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x280:

and it's over.  I'm using a Cabletron E2000 (yes I know, but it's worked fine
since 0.99.6).

Has anything changed recently ?

Do I need to #def CONFIG_NE_BAD_CLONES?

FYI Here is the successful probe from 1.2.8:

    NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x280: 00 00 1d 03 11 94
    eth0: Cabletron found at 0x280, using IRQ 9.
    ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
    ...
    Linux version 1.2.8 (root@pokey) (gcc version 2.6.3) ...

-- 
gilbert

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