Re: Newer kernel for N4100?

[Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com>]

Bill Gatliff wrote:

> I found in the .17 kernel where Thecus commented out the EEPROM checksum test in
> the e1000 driver, I'm going to do the same and see what happens.  My first
> attempt caused the code to load all ff's for the MAC, which obviously isn't what
> I want.

... and this patch is sooooo bad, I hesitate to post it.  But if I don't, I'll
lose it myself!  :)


diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
index ad6da7b..9a2a65a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -1064,6 +1064,7 @@ static int __devinit e1000_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
        /* before reading the EEPROM, reset the controller to
         * put the device in a known good starting state */

+#if 0
        e1000_reset_hw(hw);

        /* make sure the EEPROM is good */
@@ -1080,10 +1081,21 @@ static int __devinit e1000_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
                 */
                memset(hw->mac_addr, 0, netdev->addr_len);
        } else {
                /* copy the MAC address out of the EEPROM */
                if (e1000_read_mac_addr(hw))
                        DPRINTK(PROBE, ERR, "EEPROM Read Error\n");
        }
+#else
+#warning "TODO: Figure out how to deal with EEPROM checksum on N4100"
+       static int mac_seed = 0x8a;
+       hw->mac_addr[0] = 0;
+       hw->mac_addr[1] = 0x14;
+       hw->mac_addr[2] = 0xfd;
+       hw->mac_addr[3] = 0x10;
+       hw->mac_addr[4] = 0x11;
+       hw->mac_addr[5] = mac_seed++;
+#endif
        /* don't block initalization here due to bad MAC address */
        memcpy(netdev->dev_addr, hw->mac_addr, netdev->addr_len);
        memcpy(netdev->perm_addr, hw->mac_addr, netdev->addr_len);



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Bill Gatliff
bgat@billgatliff.com