Re: Porting network driver to 2.4.0

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jonathan Earle wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> Still working with kernel 2.4.0-test9 (other things we use require it for
> now), and I was looking at a driver for a Znyx zx346q network card that I
> grabbed from the znyx.com website.  The driver is for a 2.2.x kernel, but
> figuring I'd try it anyway, downloaded and tried to build it.  It choked on
> three struct net_device entries which are no longer present:
>                                                   
> zxe.c:1200: structure has no member named `tbusy'
> zxe.c:1201: structure has no member named `interrupt'
> zxe.c:1202: structure has no member named `start'
> ...
> make[2]: *** [zxe.o] Error 1                              
> 
> Where do I go from here?  Is there info somewhere to help with this?  Is
> this a bigger job than it looks on the surface?
> 
> Cheers!
> Jon

You may be lucky. Comment out all references to those structure members
and see if it works!

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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