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Discovered today that a previously working ethernet driver for the IP1000A chipset stopped working when upgrading to the latest Fedora 7 kernel (2.6.22.1-41). When compiling the driver there's now output indicating a problem:

ipg_main.c:4045: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘pci_module_init’

If you've installed or upgraded to Fedora 7 (or are running a 2.6.22+ kernel) along with an ethernet adapter using the IP1000A chipset (e.g. from /sbin/lspci getting something similar to "Sundance Technology / IC Plus Corp IP1000 Family Gigabit Ethernet" - running on an Abit motherboard here) and are using the drivers as found at http://www.icplus.com.tw/driver-pp-IP1000A.html (and this zip file in particular) then you'll need the following mod for the source code: Continue reading "IP 1000A ethernet driver Fedora 7"

The day has finally come, my laptop finally suspends and resumes correctly under Fedora Core 6 - it's mostly got part way through the suspend operation before and then hung, or on the few occasions where it shutdown, it would hang or panic on resume.

Today using kernel 2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6 it worked - suspend all the way to power off, and on resume even got the WiFi fired back up.