Messages in this thread | | | From | Andrew de Quincey <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] nvidia nforce 1.0-261 nvnet for kernel 2.5 | Date | Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:22:13 +0100 |
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> Tried shutting down the computer, and it was stuck during shutdown. > Seems like the refcounting is not really working, or perhaps there are > too many cycles happening. What happens if you do the following with a > module: > > try_module_get > MOD_INC_USE_COUNT > MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT > module_put
Thanks for pointing this out, they seem to have removed the module reference counting. But really, I don't care whether it can unload or not. I just need it to work. I'm not really interested in perfecting a quick hack to a proprietary driver.
> > But I don't think the only thing missing is the MAC address. You could > > try to manually set it in the source itself and see if anything works. > > I'll just add it in BIOS and try with AMD8111. No desire to futz around > with the nvnet source, where half of what is going on is a complete > black box (priv->hwapi, "priv" is definitely *private*).
Ah, so THATS who they licensed it from. I didn't think nividia would go to the bother of designing their own ethernet hardware. I'll have a poke about and see if I can find anything out about the MAC address
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