Re: network card detection in 2.3.18ac7

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:56:38 +0100 (BST)

> OK, what have you guys done with my network cards? I have two cards in
> this machne. The first one is a 3Com Boomerang, the second a tulip pci
> clone. In 2.3.18ac6 the second card was detected at eth1 through eth7.
> In 2.3.18ac7 neither card is detected.

I imagine the pci-scan code is broken. Don switched several of the cards to
using shared memory mode, that broke the resource interlock so ac6 started
seeing 8 of a card. I fixed that for ac7. Possibly over fixed. Have a fiddle
with drivers/pci/scan.c see if you can figure it out

Alan

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