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SubjectRe: Linux kernel TI TLAN driver
Can you send me the oops capture ??

Atro Tossavainen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got my hands on a Texas Instruments ThunderLAN PCI 100 Mbit card (PCI
> ID 104c:0500), which is what SGI are supplying if you want a second NIC
> in your O2. It appears that this card is not supported by the tlan
> driver in the Linux kernel (at least not in 2.4.29, which is what I am
> using on the machine I tried it on). Patching the driver with the
> relevant PCI IDs allowed the detection of the card, as shown in dmesg:
>
> ThunderLAN driver v1.15
> TLAN: eth0 irq=15, io=8400, Compaq NetFlex-3/E, Rev. 48
> TLAN: 1 device installed, PCI: 1 EISA: 0
>
> and in "ifconfig eth0":
>
> eth0 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:58:01:55:53
>
> (and the rest of the normal stuff)
>
> but trying to configure the interface with an address and bringing
> it up caused a kernel oops. (This is on Alpha.)
>
> # ifconfig eth0 inet blah... up
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00000000093fcb04
> Segmentation fault
>
> In dmesg, there is an
>
> ifconfig(4218): Oops 0
> followed by a register dump, a trace, and some code.
>
> Any ideas?
>

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P.Lavin
Software Engineer,
Redpine Signals ,Inc.
Hyderabad.
http://www.redpinesignals.com
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