The EEPROM (or whatever that is) on Asus K8V SE Deluxe motherboards contains buggy firmware. This buggy firmware has one flipped bit, and causes the sk98lin driver refuses to work correctly. Please look at this thread:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.0/1439.html It contains a patch for 2.6 that fixs the problem. Enclosed is a copy of this patch for 2.4.29. Please consider applying. Phil. Signed-Off-By: Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -ruN linux-2.4.29.orig/drivers/net/sk98lin/skvpd.c linux-2.4.29/drivers/net/sk98lin/skvpd.c --- linux-2.4.29.orig/drivers/net/sk98lin/skvpd.c Wed Apr 14 06:05:30 2004 +++ linux-2.4.29/drivers/net/sk98lin/skvpd.c Mon Feb 21 02:03:00 2005 @@ -466,6 +466,15 @@ pAC->vpd.vpd_size = vpd_size; + /* Asus K8V Se Deluxe bugfix. Correct VPD content */ + /* MBo April 2004 */ + if( ((unsigned char)pAC->vpd.vpd_buf[0x3f] == 0x38) && + ((unsigned char)pAC->vpd.vpd_buf[0x40] == 0x3c) && + ((unsigned char)pAC->vpd.vpd_buf[0x41] == 0x45) ) { + printk("sk98lin : humm... Asus mainboard with buggy VPD ? correcting data.\n"); + (unsigned char)pAC->vpd.vpd_buf[0x40] = 0x38; + } + /* find the end tag of the RO area */ if (!(r = vpd_find_para(pAC, VPD_RV, &rp))) { SK_DBG_MSG(pAC, SK_DBGMOD_VPD, SK_DBGCAT_ERR | SK_DBGCAT_FATAL, - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
