Hi,

This patch reverses the MII hunk from the previous patch (included in
2.4.7-pre6), which was apparently breaking some cards. It also fixes an
incorrect comment.

Please apply.

Thanks,
Ion

-- 
  It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool,
            than to open it and remove all doubt.
---------------------------------
--- linux-2.4/drivers/net/starfire.c.orig       Thu Jul 12 10:15:18 2001
+++ linux-2.4/drivers/net/starfire.c    Thu Jul 12 10:17:30 2001
@@ -87,8 +87,7 @@
 
        LK1.3.3 (Ion Badulescu)
        - Initialize the TxMode register properly
-       - Set the MII registers _after_ resetting it
-       - Don't dereference dev->priv after unregister_netdev() has freed it
+       - Don't dereference dev->priv after freeing it
 
 TODO:
        - implement tx_timeout() properly
@@ -987,12 +986,12 @@
        struct netdev_private *np = dev->priv;
        u16 reg0;
 
+       mdio_write(dev, np->phys[0], MII_ADVERTISE, np->advertising);
        mdio_write(dev, np->phys[0], MII_BMCR, BMCR_RESET);
        udelay(500);
        while (mdio_read(dev, np->phys[0], MII_BMCR) & BMCR_RESET);
 
        reg0 = mdio_read(dev, np->phys[0], MII_BMCR);
-       mdio_write(dev, np->phys[0], MII_ADVERTISE, np->advertising);
 
        if (np->autoneg) {
                reg0 |= BMCR_ANENABLE | BMCR_ANRESTART;
@@ -1939,12 +1938,12 @@
                pci_free_consistent(pdev, PAGE_SIZE,
                                    np->rx_ring, np->rx_ring_dma);
 
-       unregister_netdev(dev);                 /* Will also free np!! */
+       unregister_netdev(dev);
        iounmap((char *)dev->base_addr);
        pci_release_regions(pdev);
 
        pci_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
-       kfree(dev);
+       kfree(dev);                     /* Will also free np!! */
 }
 
 


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