Donald Becker has written a patch file for the eepro100 :
ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/2.0.30-patch
This should give you the -other- necessary files that
will need to be modified as well.
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Jacek Radajewski wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am in the process of rebuilding our beowulf system
> (http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/jacek/topcat) and have to include
> support for channel bonding and the epic100 SMC card. So far the
> epic100.o module works fine, but I need to compile epic100.c into the
> kernel. (I need a monolithic kernel to boot clients of a floppy disk and
> mount / via NFS). Anyway, I put an antry in .config "CONFIG_EPIC100=y",
> in drivers/net I put :
>
> ifeq ($(CONFIG_EPIC100),y)
> L_OBJS += epic100.o
> endif
>
> in the Makefile and compiled the kernel. (epic100.o did compile)
>
> I added an entry in /etc/lilo.conf :
>
> append="root=/dev/hda4 mem=256MB ether=0,0,eth0 ether=0,0,eth1
> ether=0,0,eth2"
>
> and ran lilo
>
> "I have 2 SMC cards and 3C900 for the outside world"
>
> When I rebooted the machine only 3C900 was detected, but I have no
> problems loading the epic100 module.
>
> Questions.
>
> 1. What did I do wrong in the kernel configuration ?
> 2. Is there any documentation available on how to add drivers to the
> kernel ?
> --
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Jacek Radajewski Unix Systems Administrator
> (Yatsek Radayevski) Department of Maths & Computing
> mailto:jacek@usq.edu.au Faculty of Sciences
> http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/jacek University of Southern
> Queensland
> ph +61 76 31 1513 fax +61 76 311775 PO Box 752, Darling Heights 4350
> mobile 0412 196437 Australia
>
> "A distributed system is one on which I cannot get any work done because
> a machine I have never heard of has crashed."
>
> Leslie Lamport
Hth, JimL
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