by Hie there
Really sorry that I am posting it again but you can say that I am really
desparate here and I really am :(
Recently bought a LinkSys Fast Ethernet 10/100 card. Inserted into that
system that runs on Redhat Linux 6.2 and Windows98, complete with 166MMX,
24MB and with Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
The network card worked out fine in Windows. In Linux, I downloaded the
driver source (tulip.c and kern_compat.h), compiled it with the appropriate
option as specified in tulip.c and copied the object file tulip over to
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/. Next changed the permissions to executable.
Next did "depmod -a" followed by "modprobe tulip.o" I was issued a :
tulip.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
I also edited /etc/lilo.conf to look like this
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
other=/dev/hda1
label=Windows
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label=Linux
read-only
root=/dev/hda3
append="ether=9,0x6000"
I issued "lilo" and edited my /etc/conf.modules file to look like this :
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias sound-slot-0 es1370
alias eth0 tulip
options eth0 io=0x6000-0x60FF irq=11
*similar to the settings in Windows and output of "cat /proc/pci"
then restarted the system and did "dmesg | grep eth0 -" and was shown
nothing. Knowing that my LinkSys card is still not being seen by the system,
I checked by doing "lsmod" and was given :
Module Size Used by
nfs 29152 1 (autoclean)
autofs 9476 1 (autoclean)
lockd 31592 1 (autoclean) [nfs]
sunrpc 53540 1 (autoclean) [nfs lockd]
nls_iso8859-1 2240 4 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 3748 4 (autoclean)
vfat 9500 4 (autoclean)
fat 31168 4 (autoclean) [vfat]
es1370 22484 0
soundcore 2692 4 [es1370]
True enough, the tulip driver was not loaded. I then tried to manually load
it by doing "insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net tulip.o" but was given a :
tulip.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
I then did "cat /proc/pci" and got :
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Intel 82437 (rev 2).
Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32.
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
ISA bridge: Intel 82371FB PIIX ISA (rev 2).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No
bursts.
Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
IDE interface: Intel 82371FB PIIX IDE (rev 2).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
Latency=32.
I/O at 0x3000 [0x3001].
Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 17).
Vendor id=1317. Device id=985.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master Capable.
Latency=32. Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
I/O at 0x6000 [0x6001].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe4000000 [0xe4000000].
Bus 0, device 19, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq AudioPCI (rev 0).
Slow devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=12.Max
Lat=128.
I/O at 0x6100 [0x6101].
Bus 0, device 20, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE (rev 6).
Medium devsel. IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=4.Max
Lat=255.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe0000000].
Doing "cat /proc/interrupts" returned :
CPU0
0: 25561 XT-PIC timer
1: 454 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
4: 280 XT-PIC serial
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
10: 0 XT-PIC es1370
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 78912 XT-PIC ide0
15: 5 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
Still no ethernet card. Looks like it gonna be a long and sad story :( Any
ideas ???