[Voyage-linux] VLAN Support on natsemi

[Joe Nelson]

Were you able to get this compiled and installed properly? I figured out my
problem from yesterday, but not the solution. The reason that I was able to
load the module the first time was because my Soekris was running on a test
kernel that I had compiled. Frankly, I'm not sure what was different, but it
worked somehow. (Even though there were other things in that kernel that
were messed up and I won't be using it.)

I think the problem is in my compile/test environment. I have a debian box
set up for compiling and testing on but everytime I try to compile this
macphy driver and then copy it over to the Soekris board, it won't work. It
says that it "disagrees about verision of symbol struct_module". I'm
assuming that that is because I compiled it on one machine that's slightly
different from my working environment.

Do you have any plans for putting up instructions on how to set up a proper
test environment? I saw something on the wiki, but no content yet.

Thanks for all that you do!

On 9/21/05, Punky Tse <punkytse at punknix.com> wrote:
>
> I downloaded the driver and there is no kernel patch. I looks like I
> need to build it manually and copy/overlay the kernel module over the
> distro...
>
> Joe Nelson wrote:
>
> > Well, I've spent a good deal of time testing a lot of different things
> > so that I can get VLANs working the way that I want on my Soekris
> > net4501. By default, these boards usually use the natsemi driver for
> > the ethernet interfaces. What I found out is that the stock natsemi
> > driver included with the kernel does not support VLANs at all.
> > However, National Semiconductor makes their own Linux driver called
> > macphy that does support VLANs. This driver can be downloaded from
> > http://www.national.com/appinfo/networks/macphyter2.html. I compiled
> > and installed this driver on my Soekris board and it works like a
> > charm! I'm very excited.
> >
> > My only problem now is that somehow I messed something up and now I
> > can't load the driver anymore. It says that it has an invalid
> > format. I did redo my Voyage system after the first time I got it
> > working so I'm sure that in all the shuffling, I messed it up
> > somehow. Anyone have any clues as to where to look to solve that one?
> >
> > Also, if it's possible, it would be great if macphy were included in
> > future Voyage releases as I'm sure others with National Semiconductor
> > chips will want VLAN support.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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