[Qemu-devel] patch to make ne2000 usable in Minix 2.0.4

[Jim C. Brown]

I've managed to apply this patch to the current CVS.

I'm not sure what the exact problem with the Minix NE2000 driver is. I do know
that it has something to do with the Bochs PANIC message: "tx start, dev in 
reset".
As far as I can see, it appears that Minix is trying to send packets over
the ne2k w/o initializing it properly. This prevents Minix from actually using
the NIC, although it is able to detect it w/o any problems. My patch basicly
forces qemu to allow Minix to work with the NIC. I should emphasize that this
is a Minix bug, and my patch is a workaround for it. (However, from what I've
heard real NICs work fine with the Minix driver in spite of its bug.)

Before you yell at me for trying to fix Minix's bugs in qemu, I should add that
the NE2000 in Bochs works just perfectly with Minix.

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