Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | (Eberhard Moenkeberg) | Subject | Re: 1.99.14 & duplicate NE2000 (fwd) | Date | 9 Jun 1996 02:04:01 GMT |
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SethMeister G. (consp05@binghamton.edu) wrote:
: Does anyone lese understand what the problem is? :)
Obviously not. ;-(
: > at booting, a NE2000 (the only network-card in the system!) is reported as: : > : > > ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov) : > > NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x340: 00 00 e8 c6 d1 1f : > > eth0: NE2000 found at 0x340, using IRQ 15.
: > 0340-035f : NE2000 : > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : > : > okay so far! : > : > now I go on, and type : > : > insmod /lib/modules/1.99.14./net/8390.o : > insmod /lib/modules/1.99.14./net/ne.o io=0x340
: Huh!? Why are you loading this driver when the driver was already loaded : at boot time?
You mean Herbert first has to tell WHY he has gone to find this bug before we look at it?
--- ne.c.~1~ Thu May 30 23:45:30 1996 +++ ne.c Sun Jun 9 03:58:48 1996 @@ -709,6 +709,8 @@ printk(KERN_NOTICE "ne.c: Module autoprobing not allowed. Append \"io=0xNNN\" value(s).\n"); return -EPERM; } + if (check_region(io[this_dev], NE_IO_EXTENT)) + return -ENXIO; if (register_netdev(dev) != 0) { printk(KERN_WARNING "ne.c: No NE*000 card found (i/o = 0x%x).\n", io[this_dev]); if (found != 0) return 0; /* Got at least one. */ should prevent it.
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