Re: [PATCH] 2.4.30: Atari EtherNEC driver Mark II
On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 11:00 +0100, Petr Stehlik wrote:
> Mark Duckworth píše v So 18. 11. 2006 v 14:33 -0500:
> > > just got it running in a self-compiled 2.4.27. It works! I am so excited
> > > having Sarge fresh netinstall working. It's amazing to see linux on my
> > > Falcon running again. Thanks to everyone who made this possible.
>
> > Oh I know, I'm totally excited too. My Falcon is going to be joining
> > the buildd farm soon since I tend to use Aranym more often for TOS
> > development anyway, and my main efforts for TOS are now focused on
> > coldfire. It'll be nice that such expensive hardware can contribute to
> > something good.
>
> That was my thought as well (it was real expensive (AB40, NOVA gfx,
> Nemesis, ...) and since I got ARAnyM running five years ago the Falcon
> has been just sitting here unused) so I wanted to join the buildd as
> well but unfortunately the ethernec hardware is so unstable that I loose
> the network connection within minutes or don't get it on reboot at
> all :-( It's either due to my amateur recasing to a big tower or perhaps
> the Nemesized 20 MHz bus (instead of standard 16 MHz) makes it so
> unstable.
>
> So I'll continue improving the ARAnym to a state where it can join the
> buildd in thousands of instances :-)
Petr,
My recasing is amateur as well. My ethernec cable is the longer than
the one that comes with it standard. The length of an IDE cable or so,
in fact I think I used an IDE cable I bought from jameco with the second
end cut off. My machine is bus clocked at 25MHz. So all of your
reasons shouldn't be to blame. What kind of real Ne2K card do you have?
Mine is an RTL8019 I believe. Mine is working well, for days at a time
with a buildd running now. There's some race conditions or something
that Michael is working on.
Thanks,
Mark
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