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From: Ion Badulescu <ionut@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: Fix for Donald Becker's DP83815 network driver (v1.07)
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> > Have you tried loading the drivers as modules? You might have more luck
> > with that approach. Space.c was designed at a time when having 4 NIC's in
> > a PC was "pushing the limits"...
> 
> 2.2.recent has module_init/exit, so you don't even need Space.c.

Check again. drivers/net builds a .a, not a .o. Trust me, I've tried.

Ion

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