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On Tuesday 07 December 2004 18:01, Maarten wrote: |
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> I'm almost ready to reboot to 2.6.9 but a little (but potential |
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> showstopper-) problem showed up. I have two wired NICs, both of them |
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> 3Com575TX. (not a typo, it is a different card than the 3C574 or 3C589 |
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> cards) (Cardbus, 100TX) I know that I need(ed) the 3c575_cb module for it |
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> under 2.4. The thing is, that came with pcmcia-cs, not with the kernel. |
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> This new kernel has the pcmcia built-in but it seems this driver was |
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> deprecated; it just isn't there. Now chances are it is merged into |
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> something else, but not knowing gives me the creeps. No network -> no |
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> nothing. No emerge that is. No emerge no fixing. And I have no other brand |
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> laying around (except for wireless but that's not proven to work yet) |
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> Anyone know what happened to this infamous 3C575 driver ? |
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> A grep for 575 in Documentation/* (including Changes) yields nothing at |
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> all. The same in .config by the way. |
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Never mind that. I've found the explanation, so the solution can't be far |
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off. It seems all cardbus is hence handled by the PCI driver / bus, thus the |
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3C59x driver. I suppose however that I need to reconfigure the kernel for |
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PCI hotplug support so that'll be for tomorrow... |
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...gotta catch up some sleep now. |
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Maarten |
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