according to Becker's suggestion to fix it, I needed to build his source file, as the version he built worked fine with multiple 3c900bs. I got the 3c59x.o file built with the 2.2.17 kernel, whose sources I downloaded in terms of .deb files (including the sources) from a debian mirror. I built the 3c59x.c from Donald Becker's netdrivers.tgz, but it gets the following diagnostic messages from an attempt to insmod:
3c59x.o: unresolved symbol acpi_wake 3c59x.o: unresolved symbol acpi_set_pwr_state 3c59x.o: unresolved symbol pci_drv_unregister 3c59x.o: unresolved symbol pci_drv_register I've never had to accompany this driver with any other module before, so presumably the version I've got isn't building right, either because it doesn't work with my kernel, or I'm just leaving something out in my novices attempt to hack the build. Has anyone else seen this problem or especially seen a solution to it? I really want to eventually stick in three 3c900b cards into this machine, and my testing shows with this kernel from Debian it won't work with two, but it will with one. Just in case you didn't see my other posting, Donald Becker sent me a response saying the 3c59x module I was using (from the latest Debian install of the time, early last week) was modified from the one he maintained, as his did not have this problem. Presumably this should be considered a bug with the Debian install for 2.2.17 kernel, or whatever the install set is called.
