[Bug 38865] Re: sky2 driver freezing system after ifdown and ifup

[pogets]

Here's exactly what I did and what worked for me:
-install linux-headers-2.6.15-25 and linux-headers-2.6.15.25.386 (the second package will obviously depend on your architecture and have to atch your kernel version) with synaptic package manager
- make a simlink in /usr/src from linux-headers-2.6.15-25-386 to linux (sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-25-386 /usr/src/linux)
- unpack the file install-8_32.tar.bz2 downloaded from the marvell website, change into that directory and run install.sh as root - at the prompt, enter option '1' = installation
- remove the module sky2 (sudo rmmod sky2) and load sk98lin (sudo modprobe sk98lin) - I have not made this permanent yet, so every time I restart, I have to manually remove both sky2 and sk98lin and then reload sk98lin, but eventually I'll remove sky2 alltogether.

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sky2 driver freezing system after ifdown and ifup
https://launchpad.net/bugs/38865