Linux 2.6 Drivers

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Ok ... I must have lost my mind....

I just started to try get the 2.4 series iburst UT drivers to work on a 2.6 kernel ...

Rodent, anyone else... advice;suggestions (other than having my head read ;-)...

I've contacted ArrayComm but not heard anything yet ...

Been looking but not seen a clear howto for driver re-write to 2.6.. And in my case I'll need a damn comprehensive howto ... while I code a fair bit I've tried to keep my sanity by staying away from device drivers where possible ;-)

<hr noshade size="1"><font size="1"><div align="right">Am I surprised they missed their origional deadline for 256K ... <b>nope</b>.
Will they make the 128/512K deadline ... hope so for their sake
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Unless the whole point is doing research work under the 2.6 kernel ;-)

<hr noshade size="1"><font size="1"><div align="right">Am I surprised they missed their origional deadline for 256K ... <b>nope</b>.
Will they make the 128/512K deadline ... hope so for their sake
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So does anyone have some sort of linux drivers for iburst? cause im hateing being back on winblows... i wanna run my iburst on gentoo -g-
 
regardtv do you by any chance have the iburst nameservers for me, setup debian on my laptop and i can ping myself and ping my windows box and i have added a default gw but i can ping out of the network.

resolv.conf only have a nameserver for my windows box
 
simply use the ones for uunet:

196.7.0.139 / 196.7.142.133 (caching - should be open to all)
196.7.0.138 / 196.7.142.132 (primaries)
 
Ok, so I've had a chat with the ArrayComm author of the drivers - he was rather shocked to hear I got the drivers without a NDA ;-)

2.6 with PCMCIA is still a fair bit away. Main focus is on 2.6 with USB - and even that seems to have low priority ATM.

Will keep all posted.
 
The developer of the linux drivers - Ted Merril - has indicated a willingness to get the stuff moved to 2.6 .. I will keep you in the loop with progress etc.

If anyone feels the urge to code/assist (Rodent ?) please drop me a line.
 
regardtv what distro you running it on? i couldnt get it working on gentoo, seems the drivers are for redhat... just downloaded redhat 9 im ganna give it a try
 
regardtv please if you see this mail me though the forum, i need some help with the drivers,
trying to install them on redhat 9 kernel 2.4. when i chmod +x ibutInstall then I run ./ibutInstall and when i choose my options and it tries to compile I get a ibutpcmcia.o error 1.
iv tried a chmod +x ibutpcmcia and tried to ./ibutpcmcia start but also doesnt work.
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by regardtv</i>
<br />2.4 kernel source drivers are available .. mail me via the forum and I'll forward it to you.
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I would be interested in having the 2.4 driver

cheers
 
After compilation of the drivers you need to ensure that you've added to correct PCMCIA card and device information (ibut.txt explains this).

From a started services point of view ... Base must be started first ... then File then Network and finally PCMCIA.
 
I get the drivers installed correctly now when when i do a "adsl-start" it hangs...
and tail -f /var/log/messages shows timeouts..
 
How is this going? Has anyone got anywhere? I would be willing to test the 2.6 drivers. Not much of a coder but I can test.
 
i hate all drivers

The main reason why i am considering moving to linux from windoze is the damn driver issues, now i find linux is being threatened with the same darn problems... 1 step forward 2 step back, are we 'evolving' yet lol
 
On Mandriva LE2005 I don't remember having to install any drivers
 
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