On 25 Mar 2001 22:15:28 -0500, Sam wrote: > Hi, > > This is a driver for the nice little USB to Ethernet devices like the > NETGEAR EA101. So far it works for me in 2.2.18 as well as 2.4.2, which > is what this is patched againts. > > It was removed in 2.4, I think because if the device had no firmware... > when the firmware was read, the device timed out with a CRC/Timeout > message. Any subsequent attempt to read or write to the device then > failed, unless the device was unplugged and plugged back in. Any ideas > on why that happened, or how I might work around it? For the time being > I just have it rewriting the firmware on probing and it seems to work > well. Hm, I actually submitted a patch to Alan on this one, and it's in his AC series - you might check that driver out. My patch did a few things - in addition to updated firmware, it also will detect whether or not firmware is currently loaded. If it is, it goes ahead with initialization, if not, it will load firmware, and then the device will disconnect & reconnect as a "new" device with firmware. There are still some issues with the driver, especially SMP problems I think, but the firmware loading part has been pretty well sorted out... Long story short, you might try the driver from Alan's ac series and see how that works for you... -Eric _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
