Re: netgear fa311 NIC driver
On Fri, 24 August 2001, Donald Becker wrote:
>
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:50:25PM -0700, bedlam@alumni.rice.edu wrote:
> > > I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.9 so I would have support for the
> > > netgear fa311 NIC, specifically the natsemi driver.
>
> You didn't need to upgrade your kernel.
> http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html
> ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/natsemi.c
>
I had problems with this before I upgraded the kernel, I couldn't compile the driver.
> > However, it is
> > > behaving strangely. I repeatedly get the error message:
> > >
> > > eth1: Something Wicked Happened! 18000
>
> Hmmm, the Rx status steck overflowed.
> I don't see this with my driver release.
> This is very unusual -- either the driver misconfigured the chip, or the
> chip couldn't get any PCI bus bandwidth to transfer Rx descriptors.
>
> As usual, my primary reply is that I don't support modified drivers. If
> you touch it, you should be willing to test and maintain the whole
> driver.
> I will debug problems that you can reproduce on an original driver.
>
I haven't modified the driver. I got it with everything else when I downloaded and compiled the 2.4.9 kernel. I'll go through the webpage steps, but if you can tell me what to look for relating to that error message and how I should fix it I'd appreciate it.
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