Certainly, Eric! Thank you! Sam On 25 Mar 2001 22:18:09 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
