Re: 2.4.0 Patch for 3c575

2001-01-11 Thread David Hinds
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:55:38PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > > The other problem is that in 2.4 cardmgr isn't told the > name of the interface which was bound to the newly-inserted NIC. > I don't know why more people aren't getting bitten by this > with pcmcia-cs+2.4. 2.4 cardmgr should be f

Re: 2.4.0 Patch for 3c575

2001-01-11 Thread Andrew Morton
David Hinds wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 06:56:22PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote: > > > > There's one other annoyance: > > > > The config files for pcmcia-cs expect the 3c575_cb driver, > > so I either have to hack the configuration files or load > > the 3c59x driver by hand. > > Yes, I'm not s

Re: 2.4.0 Patch for 3c575

2001-01-10 Thread David Hinds
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:21:58PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote: > > There are at least two things that need to happen. ... I think you're not clear on what PCMCIA support is in the 2.4 kernel tree. The pcnet_cs driver has been in the kernel tree as long as anything else. Most PCMCIA drivers are a

Re: 2.4.0 Patch for 3c575

2001-01-10 Thread Miles Lane
Miles Lane wrote: > Huh. Well, I have a 3CCFE575BT "3c575" card and I have > had success using the 3c59x driver to enable the card. I just realised that I was not explicit before: I do not think this port of 3c575_cb should go into the kernel, since the device is already supported by 3c59x, un

Re: 2.4.0 Patch for 3c575

2001-01-10 Thread Miles Lane
David Hinds wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 06:56:22PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote: > >> There's one other annoyance: >> >> The config files for pcmcia-cs expect the 3c575_cb driver, >> so I either have to hack the configuration files or load >> the 3c59x driver by hand. > > > Yes, I'm not sure

Re: 2.4.0 Patch for 3c575

2001-01-10 Thread David Hinds
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 06:56:22PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote: > > There's one other annoyance: > > The config files for pcmcia-cs expect the 3c575_cb driver, > so I either have to hack the configuration files or load > the 3c59x driver by hand. Yes, I'm not sure how to best communicate the fact t

Re: 2.4.0 Patch for 3c575

2001-01-10 Thread Miles Lane
Huh. Well, I have a 3CCFE575BT "3c575" card and I have had success using the 3c59x driver to enable the card. I only have one bug I am tracking: If I have two cardbus cards active in my cardbus slots, the 3c59x driver locks up. I doubt this problem would vanish if I were using your 3c575 drive

2.4.0 Patch for 3c575

2001-01-10 Thread Aaron Eppert
Attached is a patch against 2.4.0 to add the 3c575 driver into the kernel. Simple reasoning for the addition involves the rather broad use of this card and the need to have it in a standard kernel. Aaron Eppert -- Aaron Eppert -- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology "To escape criticism, do n