On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 06:07:37PM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 05:55:42PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:22:16AM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote: > > > I've repeated the test with this new image and the qlogic-driver doesn't > > > fail anymore. When it comes to initialize the network, it cannot retrieve > > > its settings via DHCP, also manual assignment doesn't help. It cannot get > > > connection to any other computer through the network. Your patch probably > > > affected the tulip and 3c59x module (which I use in my alpha). > > This is unlikely; I have both tulip and 3c59x cards that *required* this > > patch to be applied (... reverted) before they were usable under 2.4.26. > > Which 2.4.2x kernels have you been able to use these ethernet cards > > under successfully, and which source trees were they based on? > That's a long story. This machine worked with problems for a year with many > vanilla kernels (ranging from 2.4.2x up to 2.6.3). Both network cards and > the qlogic driver worked. After testing a LSI SCSI-Adapter the > qlogic-driver crashed at bootup (don't have the backtrace anymore). > Under linux 2.2.20-bf the qlogic driver works and also both NICs. Does this mean that there is currently *no* kernel that you are able to get working with the hardware in this machine? Or do these other kernels still work after the LSI test? > Could it be that this affected the SRM? I don't see how that would matter much, as long as you're still able to boot the system. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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