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Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 21:08:13 -0600
From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
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Subject: Re: Boot/Install disk with 'ahc' devices
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> I just bought one of these cards. What kind of "upgrade" do you mean?
> How can I tell if my card is one of those that is affected... I just
> installed a new Pentium MB with the 2940AU, and the 2.1.5-RELEASE
> GENERIC kernel will not recognize the device type (0x6178), and so will
> not attach a driver. Of course, I can't mount my root partition now. :v(
>
> Is a fix to 2.1.5R available yet? I'm holding off on 2.2 until RELEASE.

Support for the 2940AU is not in 2.1.5-RELEASE.  You need 2.1.6 in
order to get 2940AU support.  2940AU support is also in -current.

Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org