[tulip] NetGear FA511 card acting erratically

Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyushchenko simonf at cshl.edu
Wed Jul 7 08:36:09 PDT 2004


Magicfox, you are great! That helped, and so far the card works...

Simon

magicfox wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I saw somewhere...
> #ifdef __KERNEL__
> /* externally defined structs */
> ...
> struct net_device;
> ...
> 
> So I suspect the change_mtu field isn't defined in the struct. If I add 
> in ns820.c after #include </linux/netdevices.h>
> #undef HAVE_CHANGE_MTU
> I can compile it without problem.
> Don't ask to me why and if it works, I haven't this hardware.
> 
> In case of, and if you can found that, I'm angry to known where those 
> externals are defined.
> 
> @+
> 
> 
> Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyushchenko wrote:
> 
>> Hi magicfox,
>>
>> Thanks for the answer!
>>
>> My file netdevice.h does contain the definition of change_mtu (after
>> #define HAVE_CHANGE_MTU), and I do have the parameter 
>> -I/usr/src/linux-2.4/include (otherwise nothing compiles). Yet somehow 
>> it's not picked up... I can't understand why.

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