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Andrey Simonenko wrote=A0:
> You got page fault from namei(), which is called from vn_open() to lookup
> a path name.  namei() tries to obtain a reference on current directory for
> the current thread.  This current directory (fd_cdir field) is NULL in
> your kthread.  At this point a page fault in kernel address space is
> generated.

You were right :) It works now.

> Can you change fd_cdir in kthread to rootvnode I don't know, haven't
> checked this yet. =20

It works - and that's what NDISulator does. You also need to set fd_rdir.

Thanks !

Mike Silbersack wrote :
> Ask damien.bergamini@free.fr for his code that does exactly what you're=20
> asking for. :)

I've looked at Damien's source, but AFAIK in his driver, the firmware is=20
loaded from userspace through an ioctl call on the network interface.