[Prism54-users] PCI IDs

[nornagon]

Ugh.

Ok, I edited islpci_hotplug.c and added the definition for my card,
then recompiled the kernel. Then I put the latest firmware in
/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware. Now ifconfig eth0 up should, in theory,
work. But apparently eth0 doesn't exist :'(

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 04:18:49 -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez
<mcgrof at ruslug.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 10:29:48AM +1000, nornagon wrote:
> > I recently bought an SMC2802W, and I am attempting to make it work on
> > a new system, installed from the debian CDs (stable). The odd thing
> > is, though, lspci -vn tells me that the card's PCI ID is 1260:f890 and
> > its subsystem ID is 1113:ee03. The PCI Id ought to be 1260:3890 and
> > the subsystem ID ought to be 113:ee03. Is this due to a software or
> > hardware problem? Is there a way I can fix it? If not, is there a
> > workaround?
> >
> > Thanks muchly for your help.
> 
> Could be a hardware problem as this is the first SMC2802W card I hear
> with that PCI ID. You can make prism54 work with it by changing the PCI
> ID table. The attached patch does this. You apply it by going
> to the prism54 dir (kernel or cvs code, the same dir islpci_hotplug.c is)
> and doing:
> 
> patch -p0 < /path/to/bogus.diff
> 
>         Luis
> 
> --
> GnuPG Key fingerprint = 113F B290 C6D2 0251 4D84  A34A 6ADD 4937 E20A 525E
> 
> 
> 


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