Re: MII-less network card support

[Tom Parker <palfrey tevp net>]

Tom Parker wrote:

> NetworkManager:     SWITCH: old device no longer good, but no better 
> device was available
>
> Given this wired card is the only one in this machine, this is 
> somewhat annoying. Now, I *think* this might be linked into the fact 
> that my crappy network card is breaking HAL somewhat, as it's entry in 
> hal-device-manager has the net.80203 capability, and a 
> net.interface_up as '1', but no net.80203.link entry, in direct 
> contravention of the HAL 0.42 spec. I'll have a look at that at some 
> point...

I've managed to figure out how to fix my problems, and it may also help 
some of the other people with issues re: net.80203.link. HAL appears to 
have undergone some considerable changes (e.g. what looks like the start 
of a complete rewrite of the linux 2.6 backend) in current CVS HEAD vs. 
the 0.4-stable branch. I've just compiled the latest CVS, tested it 
briefly, and suddenly I have accurate info for my network card and my 
remaining bug has dissappeared. For the interested, I've created Debian 
packages of the current HAL CVS, and they're available at 
http://tevp.net/debian/. Note that I've basically just copied+pasted the 
existing debian packaging files from the 0.4.7-1 package, with only 
adding this CVS version to the changelog. This currently WFM, but YMMV.

Hopefully these packages, or at least this information, is of use to 
others having problems.

Tom