oops in kernel 2.2.5 and 2.2.9 with a sk_g16 net card

Hudin Lucian (luci@wild.transart.ro)
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 12:12:56 +0300 (EEST)

Hi, I permanently get a kernel oops when ifuping eth0 with a sk_g16
ethernet card in newer kernels. (2.2.x) In 2.0.x I did not have such
a problem. the /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/sk_g16.c file is not modified
since 1994-95.
If it's necessary I can mail a screen dump, but it's easy reproductible,
just take a machine with a sk_g16 and 2.2.x and you're done.
I have tried to find the point where tha crash occurs, but it's not that
easy, there are some obscure initialization of the sk_g16 card and using
printk("trace #x\n"); I have discovered a point where it does crash:

in sk_g16.c
at line 940 there is a call to SK_lance_init() : this is where it does
crash.
Now in SK_lance_init() :
at line 1024, in the
for(i = 0; i < TMDNUM; i++)
{
printk("trace #19 i = %d\n", i);
....
}

I get
trace #19 i = 0
and then the oops


my config is:

- k6/233
- 48 MB RAM
- cdrom teac 24x
- cdrom acer 4x
- sound board yamaha SAx
- ati 3d charger rage II + DVD 4mb ram
- old net card scheiner & koch (sk_g16)
- redhat linux 5.1 with either kernel 2.2.5 or 2.2.9

the sk_g16 thing cannot be compiled as a module, so
its in kernel, when booting linux says :
uranus kernel : sk_g16 detected on irq 5, shared memory at 0x0....

then, later on , if the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth0 file
does exist, a oops appears and the system locks
process: ifconfig... etc

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