Help building a driver for 3CR990B-LB-97

[Rick Meyer]

Thanks Fritz for taking a look at this.  I'll ask 3Com to provide the source
for the 2.6 Kernel and see what they say.  

Thanks again!

-----Original Message-----
From: Fritz Whittington [mailto:f.whittington at att.net] 
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 9:49 PM
To: rick at workcity.ca
Subject: Re: Help building a driver for 3CR990B-LB-97

On or about 2004-09-13 13:00, Rick Meyer whipped out a trusty #2 pencil 
and scribbled:

>Fritz,
>
>	Thanks for taking a look at this for me.  I have included the tar
>file and also some instructions from 3Com that I got off their website.  I
>tried to compile it - however - just got a pile of errors.  
>
>Thanks for the help!
>Rick
>  
>
Well, there's no help for this one, I guess.  I first put it on my 
newer, faster machine and got a HUGE pile of errors.  Thought I had it 
figured out, because if you just install the kernel source but never 
actually configure it and compile the kernel, there are a lot of include 
files that aren't there.  So I moved over to my older machine, on which 
I had compiled the kernel before, and tried it there.  That got me down 
to only about one screenful of warnings and errors, but some are 
showstoppers, especially a couple of assembly language IRQ files that 
don't match up with what the driver source expects.

So, you can go back to the 2.4 kernel (FC1, I don't think you're going 
to get FC2 to run on a 2.4 kernel, but it might be worth asking the 
list).  Or you could ask 3Com to fix it for the 2.6 kernel (which they 
really SHOULD be doing, since 2.4 is semi-obsolete already).  Or maybe 
there's a generic 3Com driver that would make the board function as a 
plain-vanilla NIC without using its super-duper features.   Of course, 
if the source is truly Open then perhaps some of the driver-writer gurus 
could tweak it to work under 2.6.  You may just have to put up with a 
plain ol' regular NIC for a little while, if that's possible.

-- 
Fritz Whittington
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who
dream only by night. (Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora")