Re: kernel 2.2.x

[Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>]

Markus Hennig <hennig@planNET.de> wrote:
> the text at http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/project/atm/ looks a little bit
> old (no kernel 2.2.x mentioned), but in the mailinglist-archiv i found
> link to :
> http://deepthought.cwru.edu/~moshe/cwruatm-HOWTO/
> 
> so my question:
> 
> is there any driver ready or is anybody working on a devide driver for
> kernel 2.2.xx ??

Just ignore the fact that it does not mention kernel 2.2.x. Try 
patching in the driver and see what happens. I have a PCA200E 
running with kernel 2.2.3 with no problems:

sello:~# uname -a
Linux sello 2.2.3 #2 Tue Mar 9 15:11:13 EET 1999 i586 unknown
sello:~# cat /proc/atm/devices 
Itf Type    ESI/"MAC"addr AAL(TX,err,RX,err,drop) ...
  0 pca200e 00204808b074  0 ( 0 0 0 424 0 )  5 ( 23667726 0 24023257 0 0 )
sello:~# uptime
  7:21pm  up 44 days,  2:13,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
sello:~# 
 
> can anybody say, where is the best start for looking and patching, if i
> want start to rewrite the driver-code for kernel 2.2.xx (first step
> quick and dirty;-).

Maybe this will save you some work :)

// Heikki
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Heikki Vatiainen                  * hessu@cs.tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology  * Tampere, Finland