From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: the pcnet32 driver contains a bug since kernel 2.4.0. The HomePNA card is not being initialized correctly. The driver worked under kernel 2.2. There have been several postings in various newsgroups about this since kernel 2.4.0, but the word is apparently not getting to the maintainer of pcnet32. I don't know who that is ... can you help me submit this bug to the correct people? At line 588 there is a #if 0 statement that must be removed, along with the corresponding #endif. Bug Code (lines 588-594): /* switch to home wiring mode */ media = a->read_bcr(ioaddr, 49); #if 0 if (pcnet32_debug > 2) printk(KERN_DEBUG PFX "media value %#x.\n", media); media &= ~3; media |= 1; #endif if (pcnet32_debug > 2) Fixed Code: /* switch to home wiring mode */ media = a->read_bcr(ioaddr, 49); if (pcnet32_debug > 2) printk(KERN_DEBUG PFX "media value %#x.\n", media); media &= ~3; media |= 1; if (pcnet32_debug > 2) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot up with a 1 MB HomePNA network card and kernel 2.4.x 2.It will not work 3.The driver works if the card is already initialize. For example, if you boot from power off to Windows (so Windows initializes the card), then soft-boot to Linux it will work. But Linux will not correctly initialize it from power off. Actual Results: After fixing the code and re-compiling, the card works fine. But new releases of the kernel require repeating the process. Additional info:
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