RE: 2.2.20: pci-scan+natsemi & Device or resource busy

From: Daniel J Blueman (daniel.blueman@btinternet.com)
Date: Sun Jan 27 2002 - 08:22:27 EST

The kernel NatSemi driver works perfectly for me with a Netgear FA-311
network card. Kernel is 2.4.17. I haven't tried it modular though...

Dmesg output:

[snip]
natsemi.c:v1.07 1/9/2001 Written by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
  http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html
  (unofficial 2.4.x kernel port, version 1.07+LK1.0.13, Oct 19, 2001
Jeff Garzi
k, Tjeerd Mulder)
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.0
eth0: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xc8009000, 00:02:e3:0a:98:5a, IRQ 11.
eth0: Transceiver status 0x7849 advertising 05e1.
[snip]

Dan
____________________
Daniel J Blueman

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
> [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Stevie O
> Sent: 27 January 2002 02:13
> To: Jeff Garzik
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: 2.2.20: pci-scan+natsemi & Device or resource busy
>
>
> At 09:06 PM 1/26/2002 -0500, Stevie O wrote:
> >At 07:07 PM 1/26/2002 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >>Stevie O wrote:
> >> > My friend is trying Linux for the first time. I'm having him use
> >> > the pci-scan and natsemi modules for his Netgear FA-311
> card. With
> >> > the initial
> >>
> >>These aren't Linux drivers, they are scyld.com drivers... See
> >>http://scyld.com/ for support and more info...
> >
> >Ahah! Thank you :P
> >
> >/me smacks himself for not verifying that he'd found the
> right drivers
> >
> >Any idea what drivers I *do* need?
> >
>
> Erm, wait...
>
> A google for "linux fa-311 driver" yields this as the first result:
>
http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html

The title of this page is "Linux Drivers for PCI Ethernet Chips"...

Netgear isn't exactly a small company, I'm finding it hard to believe
that
NOBODY has ever tried to create a module for one of their cards... 

--
Stevie-O

Real programmers use COPY CON PROGRAM.EXE

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