Hi List, this goes diretcly to SUSE !!!! After patching my sk98lin driver with the follwing patch from the 2.6.6-mm series i can actually use my system now. THIS IS A REGRESSION COMPARED TO SUSE 9.1 !!! PLEASE WAKE UP!!! Include this patch in your next kernel patch! Regards JR. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jeff Lightfoot <jeffml@pobox.com> The following patch to net/sk98lin/skvpd.c was put together by Marc Bouget, mbouget at club-internet.fr. This patch works around a corrupt EEPROM (VPD?) in the ASUS K8V Deluxe SE motherboard ethernet chipset and allows the network driver to work correctly. We have written to ASUS and the sk98lin maintainers but have not heard anything back. --- 25-akpm/drivers/net/sk98lin/skvpd.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/net/sk98lin/skvpd.c~sk98lin-buggy-vpd-workaround drivers/net/sk98lin/skvpd.c --- 25/drivers/net/sk98lin/skvpd.c~sk98lin-buggy-vpd-workaround 2004-04-26 22:02:06.353452640 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/net/sk98lin/skvpd.c 2004-04-26 22:02:06.357452032 -0700 @@ -468,6 +468,17 @@ SK_IOC IoC) /* IO Context */ pAC->vpd.vpd_size = vpd_size; + /* Asus K8V Se Deluxe bugfix. Correct VPD content */ + /* MBo April 2004 */ + if (((unsigned char)pAC->vpd.vpd_buf[0x3f] == 0x38) && + ((unsigned char)pAC->vpd.vpd_buf[0x40] == 0x3c) && + ((unsigned char)pAC->vpd.vpd_buf[0x41] == 0x45)) { + printk("sk98lin: Asus mainboard with buggy VPD?" + "Correcting data.\n"); + pAC->vpd.vpd_buf[0x40] = 0x38; + } + + /* find the end tag of the RO area */ if (!(r = vpd_find_para(pAC, VPD_RV, &rp))) { SK_DBG_MSG(pAC, SK_DBGMOD_VPD, SK_DBGCAT_ERR | SK_DBGCAT_FATAL, _