[tulip] Problem building netdriver-2.1-2.src.rpm

[Donald Becker]

On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Hunt Kent wrote:
> --- Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Russell Mackenzie wrote:
> > > Linux Redhat 7.1, kernel 2.4.2-2 on an i686
...
> > For now you will have to build the tulip.c driver
> > individually, using
> > the driver source and kern_compat.h file from the
> > 'test' directory.
> > 
> > > 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: CONEXANT: Unknown
> > device 1803 (rev 08)
> 
> When you say build the tulip.c driver individually...
> do you also mean "AND USING KERNEL 2.2"?

The recent drivers are reported to work with 2.4, however I do not test
with 2.4.

There are unresolved issue with the 2.4 'modversion' settings and
multi-architecture support, but if the driver compiles on 2.4 it should
run. 

> He is using 
> kernel 2.4.2. I thought that at least the CONEXANT
> driver would not work with 2.4 yet from our previous
> emails and perhaps even the tulip driver itself. 
> Have you made upgrades to your driver to work with
> 2.4? I haven't seen announcements in the list. Could
> you please clarify? 

I've been making changes to the drivers and kern_compat.h over time.
There was an exchange on either the Tulip or Tulip-bug list about this
about two weeks ago.

Note that the driver will work, but it's not properly ported to 2.4.


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