pc386/i386ex ne2000 drivers

[ian at airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor)]

   Date:	Fri, 06 Aug 1999 14:56:42 -0700
   From: "erik.ivanenko" <erik.ivanenko at utoronto.ca>

   Neither the patch sent by Joel, which had the 8 bit stuff, nor this one could be
   applied cleanly to my driver source.  In fact, in the patch that you gave me, all
   hunks fail, unless I use -R.  Then only half of them fail.   In the patch that Joel
   gave me, only 3 fail.

My patch was against the 19990528 sources (which for the pc386 ne2000
driver are identical to the 19990709 sources).  I wasn't trying to
send you a patch against your sources.

   The other huge difference is in the order of initialization.  (May or may not be
   important ):

   my code:
   start daemons
   ne_init_hardware
   install irq handler

   dist:
   ne_init_hardware
   install irq handler
   start daemons.

With my patch, it goes:
    start daemons
    ne_init_hardware
    install irq handler
or in other words the same as your code.

   When I run the distibution, and trigger debug messages, I get an infinite loop
   detailing that the: NE200 status is 0xFF (8259 enabled: yes;  mask : FFD2 )

The status is consistently 0xff?  Are you sure you're using the right
IO port number for your board?

Ian