The driver compiles but has a problem reading the net adapter's eeprom. The last version 0.85 in the previous 2.4.19-r1 worked fine and has forced me to drop to using vanilla-sources (0.85) until this is resolved. I am using a 3com based board. I am going to check with the driver authors at http://jes.home.cern.ch/jes/gige/acenic.html to see what they know.
Did you hear back from them?
Hiya... what's the status update on checking with the authors?
Nada - maybe they are on vacation ;-) I'll try again - and take a look at what's changed as well.
I have looked at this somewhat and perfomed a little testing. linux-2.4.18 w/acenic 0.85 works linux-2.4.19-gentoo-r5 w/acenic 0.89 (same kernel settings) DOES NOT WORK linux-2.4.19-gentoo-r5 w/acenic 0.85 (same kernel settings) DOES NOT WORK There is nothing obvious in the code that would point to something. However, the above test indicate to me that there is some issue related to 2.4.19 and the acenic driver (at least with my machine and card) without any of the gentoo performance patches turned on. The machine I am running on is a Abit BP6 dual Celeron with 3Com gigabit and Intel eepro100 cards. The Intel cards works fine always. When the 3Com card has a problem it's limited to reading the card's eprom to retrieve it's MAC address. That is the extent of the problem as far as I can tell. There is no change between 0.85 and 0.89 versions of the driver in the eprom read code. Maybe one of you guys can get the driver author to look at it. I am including a copy of dmesg when the driver fails to read the card's eprom. Scott
Created attachment 1009 [details] dmesg output showing acenic eeprom sync/read failure
Finally got ahold of the driver author. He is looking into this problem.
Have you tested this in gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r9, if not please do and report the status of it.
Assuming fixed unless you re-open this bug.
