Unfortunately, due to requirements laid out out of my control, I have to use the RHEL5 distribution I was given from Redhat(part of a customer account).
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jerry Cooperstein Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 3:29 AM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] PCMCIA ethernet card on RHEL 5.2 Tom Sightler wrote: > > The 8139too driver included with RHEL5 uses MMIO by default but does > include vendor strings for particular cards that only support PIO to > force PIO mode on those device. Unfortunately it doesn't look like your > card is listed as a PIO only card so it simply tries MMIO and then > aborts. > > There is actually a compile time flag that can be set to make the driver > use PIO by default, however, it can't be changed at runtime in the > version of the driver included with RHEL5 (more recent versions of the > driver include a "use_io" module option that allow you to force PIO mode > at driver load time by just adding an option to modprobe.conf). > > It probably wouldn't be too difficult to build a slightly newer version > of the 8139too driver for the current kernel but I'm not sure how > involved your wanting to get into this since that would require > additional maintenance for future kernel updates. If you want to try it > let me know and I'll post some instructions. > > Later, > Tom > > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > > You'd probably find it less work to just compile and use any recent kernel, for which there is a load time parameter for this card as pointed out above. I guarantee backporting a recent version of 8139too.c to a 2.6.18-based kernel (as in RHEL5) wJerrill be more work. I have indeed a (different) PCMCIA card based on the 8139too and I never looked into the details, but it does fail on RHEL5 kernels, but it worked with every custom compiled kernel I've used for the last couple of years. Jerry -- ====================================================================== Jerry Cooperstein, PhD <[email protected]> Senior Consultant (608) 848-1507 Axian, Inc. http://www.axian.com/ 9600 SW Nimbus Avenue, Suite 200 Beaverton, OR 97008 USA (503) 644-6106 ====================================================================== _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
