G'day all, I recently got a Winbond 840 based card working with e-smith 4.1.2, and have made some notes that I would like to turn into a HOWTO eventually. Basically I added the driver to the modules directory and edited the pcitable file. I didn't expect to have to reboot twice though.
Can someone explain when the list of ethernet drivers in the console gets regenerated, and if there is an easier way to get it updated than rebooting? Brad ----------------------- Introduction I recently bought a TRENDnet TW100-S4PCI four port switch card. For those not familiar with the hardware, it is a PCI card with a five port switch built into it. One of the switch ports is connected to a Winbond W89C840 10/100Mbps ethernet chip, and the other four ports are available on the outside of the PCI card. Probably a pretty useful card for a small office setup. The outside of the box says "Compatible with Major Network Operating Systems", so I knew it'd be supported by Linux :-) Problem Statement The switch functionality worked fine. Unfortunately the Winbond W89C840 PCI ethernet adapter wasn't recognised by e-smith 4.1.2 (nor with 5.0, but I wanted to stick with 4.1.2 in any case). Fix 1. Download the drivers from Trendnet's web site (http://www.trendware.com/downloads/_downloads.htm, and work through the dialogs). Extract the zip file. 2. The file you need is called winbond-840.o. Copy it into /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/net/ on the e-smith server. 3. Open /usr/share/kudzu/pcitable, and scroll down until you find the line with vendor ID 0x1050 and product ID 0x0840 (they are the first two columns). You should see a description of the card on the right hand side. Change the "unknown" to "winbond-840". 4. Reboot 5. Run through the console configuration, and you should be given the option of selecting this card. Obviously you need to select it at this point. 6. You will need to reboot again. 7. You now have network connectivity on that card :) Caveats and Limitations A. This probably only works with uP. B. You would probably need to find another source of the driver to make it work on e-smith 5.0, although a simple recompile of the source code (winbond-840.c) provided in the TRENDnet download would be enough. Questions or Feedback Contact Brad Hards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) with any questions or suggestions on this HOWTO. -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
