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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:34:53 +0200
From: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
To: Christian Guggenberger 
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Subject: Re: via-rhine weirdness with via kt8235 Southbridge
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:49:31 +0200, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> This concerns both 2.4 and 2.5 kernels  (testet with 2.4.20pre*aa series,
> and with 2.5.43, 2.5.44 and 2.5.44-ac1):
> 
> When I enable APIC in the Bios, the via-rhine module will insert
> properly, but I won't get a link... With APIC disabled, link is ok.  Ok,
> this could be caused by buggy bios, so I'll try again, when a new
> biosversion is available.

Yeah, it seems there's a problem with IO-APICs. I currently don't have a
machine with IO-APIC for testing, though, so...

> 2.
> This only happens with the 2.5 series (testet with 2.5.43 and above):

2.5 is carrying an old version of the driver. I will post an update with
additional fixes for both 2.4 and 2.5 before it's 2.6 :-).

Roger
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