[Voyage-linux] VLAN Support on natsemi

[Joe Nelson]

Well, I've spent a good deal of time testing a lot of different things so that I can get VLANs working the way that I want on my Soekris net4501.  By default, these boards usually use the natsemi driver for the ethernet interfaces.  What I found out is that the stock natsemi driver included with the kernel does not support VLANs at all.  However, National Semiconductor makes their own Linux driver called macphy that does support VLANs.  This driver can be downloaded from http://www.national.com/appinfo/networks/macphyter2.html.  I compiled and installed this driver on my Soekris board and it works like a charm!  I'm very excited.

My only problem now is that somehow I messed something up and now I can't load the driver anymore.  It says that it has an invalid format.  I did redo my Voyage system after the first time I got it working so I'm sure that in all the shuffling, I messed it up somehow.  Anyone have any clues as to where to look to solve that one?

Also, if it's possible, it would be great if macphy were included in future Voyage releases as I'm sure others with National Semiconductor chips will want VLAN support.

Thanks!

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Joe Nelson
Air Wired
http://www.airwired.net

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