Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 08 May 1996 09:07:05 +0200 | From | Paolo Pierini <> | Subject | Re: 1.3.98 breaks tcpdump, and 590 voes |
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(Mikael Abrahamsson) wrote: > > I scanned the past 600 messages to the list, and nowhere could I find that > tcpdump was reported broken by one of the later kernels. > (using 1.3.98 and 3c509combo) > ... I omit the tcpdump part since I have no idea on that ...
> I didnt get the 3c59x to work either in .1.3.98, I had to go back to my > trustworthy 509combo. I tried to get the 590 to work both as a module and > compiled into the kernel. It would detect, it would even after some > fiddeling get the right media type (autodetect doesnt seem to work, and > the "insmod 3c59x option=1" wont work either). I set the media type in > hardware with the etherdisk from 3com, everything seems to work at > detect-time, but I still get the "SCIOCTL: network not available" (or > whatever the first thingie is supposed to be.. :) ) > > May 5 17:56:04 uplift kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.13 2/13/96 > becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov > May 5 17:56:04 uplift kernel: Overriding PCI latency timer (CFLT) > setting of 64, new value is 255. > May 5 17:56:04 uplift kernel: loading device 'eth0'... > May 5 17:56:04 uplift kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c590 Vortex 10Mbps at 0xff80, > 00:a0:24:77:27:24, IRQ 11 > May 5 17:56:04 uplift kernel: 8K byte-wide RAM 1:1 Rx:Tx split, 10Mbs > AUI interface. > > I tried to get the updated version at beckers vortex-page, but I never got > it to compile correctly... > > This is a P75, using GCC 2.7.0 (upgraded according to ELF-howto and > nothing more).
I have a P60, 32 MB ram, GCC 2.7.0 (elf, out of the slackware CDROM), compiled kernel 1.3.98 and I am nicely running the vortex driver 3c59x.
I could manage to run the driver only as a module, setting the options in /etc/conf.modules
alias eth0 3c59x options 3c59x debug=1 options=3
(of course, I have a TBase 2 bnc connection)
The module autoloads correctly. If I try to load it in the kernel it will fail to work and give the SCIOCTL errors. By the way, I have the same 0.13 version of the driver. I also didn't set up anything with the 3Com utilities, just plugged the card out of the Box in the PCI slot.
Paolo
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