Sorry, this was a false alarm. The 3c589 works! I was using the wrong combination of vmlinuz and pcmcia.rdz But the RTL 8139 has problems as described.
Keld On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:38:11AM +0200, Keld J�rn Simonsen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:09:08AM +0200, Keld J�rn Simonsen wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a problem with the integrated RTL 8139 ethernet chip in my new > > Acer TravelMate 233. The 8139too 0.9.26 driver dies with a Oops: 0002 message > > it says in another place: > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address > > 00000008 > > printing eip: > > d06261c0 > > > > This happens both under install from current cooker network.img > > and also with my installed 9.2beta 2 image. > > Also had more or less the same problem with an old 3com 3c589 card, > it made an oops 0000 - after booting off a cooker pcmcia.img image. > That is, I am booting from disk, after splitting the pcmcia.img up, > and using the kernel and pcmcia.rdz to boot from. It loads the > 3c589 driver but when asking for a dhcp address, it dies. > > The card functions more or less under 9.2beta2 , but dies after > transferring about 500 MB, and the screen looks strange, flickering > while transferring. > > Best regards > keld
