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Re: Etherexpress support appears broke...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Blundell)
Sun Mar 17 11:25:55 1996
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 16:18:01 +0000 (GMT)
From: Philip Blundell <pjb27@cam.ac.uk>
To: John Vozza <john@netrom.com>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960316224705.439A-100000@mike.netrom.com>
On Sat, 16 Mar 1996, John Vozza wrote:
> I successfully moved from 1.2.13elf to 1.3.71 with no problems then
> patched to 1.3.72 still no problems. Then I patched to 1.3.73 and at boot
> up, the etherexpress driver casues an oops 0002 kernel paging error.
>
> 1.3.74 also does the same. I tryed the driver both as part of the kernel
> and as a module with the same result, although as a module if I load it 4
> times (unloading the non-initalized attemp) it would finally load and
> actually work!
Yes, the EtherExpress driver is broken in 1.3.73-1.3.75. Sorry about
that. It should be fixed in 1.3.76.
Phil
