strange bnx2 dkms behaviour.
Guillaume Rousse
Guillaume.Rousse at inria.fr
Wed Nov 7 06:08:06 CST 2007
Fajar A. Nugraha a écrit :
> Guillaume Rousse wrote:
>> So, I created a patch to update the three files from standard linux
>> 2.6.18 tree (bnx2.c, bnx2_fw.h, bnx2.h) to the versions from the tarball
>> also found at http://linux.dell.com/files/bnx2/xen-fix/. It build
>> perfectly, modinfo bnx2 correctly returns the expected version
>> (1.4.51b), but it doesn't fix the issue: as soon as xen launches, the
>> network card turns non-functional :(
>>
>>
> May I ask why you're not using version 1.5.10c?
First, because I didn't find any source tarball, nor dkms package for it
Second, because trying to build it against 2.6.18 kernel (the one from
xen 3.1) failed, because of subsequent kernel changes. Being not enough
familiar with kernel coding, I prefered the safe way.
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Guillaume Rousse
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