3c59x.c and SMP

[Rajesh Radhakrishnan <rradhakr@email.uc.edu>]

Hi,

I have a dual pentium processor box with 3com595 ethernet card. Try as
I might I couldn't get my newly installed 2.2.14 kernel to connect to
the internet.

I just read in one of the Ethernet-HOWTO files that the ethernet card
driver ie. 3c59x.c must have the 'spin_lock' function to implement
arbitration between the dual processors.

Unfortunately, the 3c59x.c doesn't have such a 'spin_lock' function,
even in the the newest version that I downloaded from

http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html 

However, I did find 'spin_lock' in  3c501,3c507,3c509 drivers

$ grep spin_lock 3c*.c
..
3c509.c:                spin_lock(&lp->lock);
3c509.c:        spin_lock(&lp->lock);

Any suggestions...
Thanks
Rajesh