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
<a href="http://www.national.com/appinfo/networks/macphyter2.html">http://www.national.com/appinfo/networks/macphyter2.html</a>. I
compiled and installed this driver on my Soekris board and it works
like a charm! I'm very excited.<br>
<br>
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?<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a title="http://www.national.com/appinfo/networks/macphyter2.html" href="http://www.national.com/appinfo/networks/macphyter2.html"></a>
</span></font><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Joe Nelson<br>Air Wired<br><a href="http://www.airwired.net">http://www.airwired.net</a>