Hi Carlos
On 27/09/21 04:34, Carlos Milán Figueredo wrote:
Hi Adrian,
From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Sent: domingo, 26 de septiembre de 2021 14:51
Did you check whether the necessary kernel modules are present on the
booted installer system? They should be in /lib/modules/$(VERSION)/*.
On Debian Sarge it lists: 8390.o, a2065.o, apne.o, ariadne.o, dummy.o, hydra.o
and zorro8390.o
The apne.o is the Amiga PCMCIA NE2000-compatible driver [1]. But it won't
detect the DE-660+ for some reason (it ends on a kernel dump) if I force
loading it.
Then it needs to be enabled as a debian-installer module in the directory
debian/installer/* in the kernel packaging source [1].
The module that contains apne driver is not on hd-media initrd, but it is in a
udeb package -don't know which one- read after iso-scan got the ISO from any
partition with a supported filesystem. So I can test it on Sarge hd-media, but
not on recent snapshots.
Also, I have seen there have been very recent kernel patches from Michael
Schmitz to the Amiga PCMCIA driver [2], it looks like for probing 16-bit cards;
so I think it will be better to make tests on a recent kernel snapshot rather
than the old Sarge distribution. I will wait for the fixed hd-media.
Please check whether your card is indeed one of the supported 8390 or
compatible based cards (10 or 100 Mbit).
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the 16 bit / 100 Mbit patches to
be accepted into the mainstream kernel. Haven't had any feedback from
netdev, and the review process on linux-m68k wasn't too encouraging
either. That said, I have another respin of the patch series in the
pipeline (need to check that this is a good time to submit patches to
netdev first).
Cheers,
Michael
If I am successful, I will make a install video -like the one I did for NetBSD
[3]- and write updated install and FAQ documentation :)
Regards,
Carlos
[1]
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.14.7/source/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/apne.c
[2]
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-m68k/1630206710-5954-3-git-send-email-schmitz...@gmail.com/
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ5fuCA5tM8
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