[parisc-linux] Ethernet driver issues....

[Sam Creasey]

This message appeared on the m68k list today, I've had some of these
issues with the lasi ethernet driver on my 712....  any change with a
newer driver as listed below?


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Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:26:45 +0100
From: Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>
To: reinhard arlt <reinhard.arlt@t-online.de>
Cc: Linux/m68k <linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: linux-2.3.99-pre2 on mvme177 (fwd)
Resent-Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 15:28:25 +0200 (MET DST)
Resent-From: linux-m68k@phil.uni-sb.de

> 3. The ethernet driver complains about returning buffers on hard irq
> level. Is this because of the  higher warning level in the driver ?
**> 4. There is a general problem with the ethernet driver, as it starts
**> slowly, with tx timeouts etc.

Pick up 82596.c from an official 2.3.99-pre6 or later; that should
work fine.