[realtek] winbond.c

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Raphael Dierkes wrote:

> this is not the correct mailing-list but i need help to configure the winbond w89c840f chipset.
> I want to use a LevelOne FNC-0500TX network card. This board contains a  winbond chip and 
> an integrated 5 port 10/100 Mbps FD/HD switch.
> I think the winbond chip is connected directly to the switch because the module can't find any
> PHY chip.
> my problems:
> 
> eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffer netdev_rx() status was 0x80000000

This was a sign extention problem with an endian macro in some Linux kernel
version.  It was corrected in the next driver version
   ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/winbond-840.c
   http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html

Donald Becker				becker@scyld.com
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