Thanks goes to Dr. Thomas Blinn who resolved the problem with patch kit 5 for
4.0f. Ill post the instructions below as well as some of his comments because the
problem doesnt pertain to all systems.
> > Dr. Blinn,
> >
> > First thanks tremendously for the response. Your help is greatly
> > appreciated. I did as you say and looked at both /usr/sys/BINARY/files
> > and at /usr/sys/conf/alpha/files. They both had a line for the ee entry
> > and both had a line for the MODULE entry. I removed the entries from the
> > /usr/sys/BINARY/files file. I ran doconfig -c system-name and
> > everything ran fine. I copied the new vmunix to / and rebooted. I dont see
> > any problems at this point.
> >
> > thanks for your help!
> > darryl
>
> You got it 100% correct. I wish I could tell you when the fixed patch
> kit will be available; but the work-around is EXACTLY what you did.
>
> Note this will only bite someone who has the NHD3 kit installed AND
> tries to add the patch kit.
>
> The use of the "files" files is messy, and it's easy to accidentally
> make something that won't work if you don't test it adequately. I've
> not double checked, but it's possible that unless you have the DE6xx
> type of Ethernet card (that uses the "ee" driver), this actually will
> NOT impact you. So that might be how it fell through the cracks, the
> testers might have NOT been running on a system with a DE6xx option.
>
> Tom
>
>
Received on Thu Apr 19 2001 - 16:17:59 NZST