Very Computer

> As you can see, the module tulip cannot be loaded, for
> reasons I don't quite understand.

> Here are some particulars:

> uname -a:

> Linux localhost 2.4.7-10 #1 Thu Sep 6 17:27:27 EDT 2001 i686 unknown

> I seem to be having some problems with my networking.

> Here's the background (as memory serves):

> I had a VA Linux system running for a while with the 2.2
> version of the kernel and I was subscribed to earthlink via
> a modem.  I eventually decided to cancel the earthlink
> account and move up the food chain by hooking up with the
> local cable modem (roadrunner) folks.   They told me that
> officially they "don't support" linux, and the installer
> knew nothing about it personally, but the transition went
> through without a hitch.  I went into linuxconf and selected
> dhcp, did a /sbin/ifup eth0, and I was in business.   The
> only drawback was that I couldn't find a way to have it
> bring up the interface at boot time.

> At some point I started having a problem.   After starting
> the machine I noticed that I couldn't start the eth0
> interface and that the messages that I remember at the time
> referred to the machine's inability to find the tulip
> module.

> So I decided to go out and buy the latest version (7.2) of
> the Redhat distribution since I had started playing around
> with modules and I wanted to play in a more advanced
> sandbox.

> The installation went superbly.   I chose the DHCP option at
> installation time and the interface came up cleanly.   Time
> and time again. (About a month time span).

> And then it stopped doing so.   Suddenly. (at least that's
> how this linux newbie perceives it).

> I thought that maybe my module playing could have had
> something to do with it so I reinstalled the system
> completely.

> No network interface.

> I finally got /usr/sbin/netconfig to let me set DHCP
> manually and I was able to bring up the eth0 interface.   I
> then remembered that during the installation process I
> wasn't queried about DHCP, but thinking that I had found a
> work-around (via netconfig), I felt somewhat confident in
> shutting off the machine (after about a week).   Just for
> paranoia's sake, I immediately turned it back on to see if
> the process would work as expected.   It did.   So I went
> sleepy-bye with full confidence that the system would
> perform properly the next morning. (NOTE: since the new
> re-installation I have *not* been playing with modules)

> No such luck.   I tried the old netconfig trick about a
> dozen times.   I've used neat several times to remove and
> reinstall the device.   I've followed the documentation on
> the manual configuration of a DHCP client, but I still can't
> get the thing to work.

> Here are some particulars:

> uname -a:

> Linux localhost 2.4.7-10 #1 Thu Sep 6 17:27:27 EDT 2001 i686 unknown

> dmesg:

> Linux version 2.4.7-10 (bhcomp...@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc
> version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #1 Thu Sep 6
> 17:27:27 EDT 2001
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007fe0000 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000007fe0000 - 0000000007ff8000 (ACPI data)
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000007ff8000 - 0000000008000000 (ACPI NVS)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> Scanning bios EBDA for MXT signature
> On node 0 totalpages: 32736
> zone(0): 4096 pages.
> zone(1): 28640 pages.
> zone(2): 0 pages.
> Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=303
> BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10
> Initializing CPU#0
> Detected 399.106 MHz processor.
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 796.26 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 125140k/130944k available (1269k kernel code, 4520k reserved,
> 90k data, 220k init, 0k highmem)
> Dentry-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
> Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
> Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
> CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
> CPU: L2 cache: 128K
> Intel machine check architecture supported.
> Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
> CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU:     After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU:             Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05
> Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgo...@atnf.csiro.au)
> mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb91, last bus=1
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
> PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0e.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0c.0
> PCI: Failed to allocate resource 0(0-ffffffff) for 00:0e.0
> Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
> isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
> isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> Initializing RT netlink socket
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14)
> mxt_scan_bios: enter
> Starting kswapd v1.8
> VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
> pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
> Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT
> SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d
> block: queued sectors max/low 83058kB/27686kB, 256 slots per queue
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
> ide: Assuming 33MHz PCI bus speed for PIO modes; override with
> idebus=xx
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> PIIX4: chipset revision 1
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CX6.4A, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: ATAPI CDROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=784/255/63,
> UDMA(33)
> ide-floppy driver 0.97
> Partition check:
>  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> ide-floppy driver 0.97
> md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
> md: autorun ...
> md: ... autorun DONE.
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
> Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> Freeing initrd memory: 322k freed
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> Journalled Block Device driver loaded
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed
> Adding Swap: 257000k swap-space (priority -1)
> usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
> usb.c: registered new driver hub
> usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.259 $ time 17:36:49 Sep  6 2001
> usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
> PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:07.2
> usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xef80, IRQ 10
> usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
> usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
> hub.c: USB hub found
> hub.c: 2 ports detected
> usb-uhci.c: v1.251:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
> EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.8, 25 Aug 2001 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.8, 25 Aug 2001 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.8, 25 Aug 2001 on ide0(3,5), internal journal
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.8, 25 Aug 2001 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
> parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
> parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
> parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
> parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
> ip_conntrack (1023 buckets, 8184 max)
> Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre6 (July 2, 2001)
> PCI: Device 00:0e.0 not available because of resource collisions
> tulip: Cannot enable tulip board #0, aborting
> es1371: version v0.30 time 17:36:47 Sep  6 2001
> PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0c.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0e.0
> es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x04
> es1371: found es1371 rev 4 at io 0xef00 irq 9
> es1371: features: joystick 0x0
> ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4352:0x5903 (Cirrus Logic CS4297)
> ide-floppy driver 0.97
> hdc: ATAPI 50X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
> Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre6 (July 2, 2001)
> PCI: Device 00:0e.0 not available because of resource collisions
> tulip: Cannot enable tulip board #0, aborting

> I seem to be having some problems with my networking.

> Here's the background (as memory serves):

> I had a VA Linux system running for a while with the 2.2
> version of the kernel and I was subscribed to earthlink via
> a modem.  I eventually decided to cancel the earthlink
> account and move up the food chain by hooking up with the
> local cable modem (roadrunner) folks.   They told me that
> officially they "don't support" linux, and the installer
> knew nothing about it personally, but the transition went
> through without a hitch.  I went into linuxconf and selected
> dhcp, did a /sbin/ifup eth0, and I was in business.   The
> only drawback was that I couldn't find a way to have it
> bring up the interface at boot time.

> At some point I started having a problem.   After starting
> the machine I noticed that I couldn't start the eth0
> interface and that the messages that I remember at the time
> referred to the machine's inability to find the tulip
> module.

> So I decided to go out and buy the latest version (7.2) of
> the Redhat distribution since I had started playing around
> with modules and I wanted to play in a more advanced
> sandbox.

> The installation went superbly.   I chose the DHCP option at
> installation time and the interface came up cleanly.   Time
> and time again. (About a month time span).

> And then it stopped doing so.   Suddenly. (at least that's
> how this linux newbie perceives it).

> I thought that maybe my module playing could have had
> something to do with it so I reinstalled the system
> completely.

> No network interface.

> I finally got /usr/sbin/netconfig to let me set DHCP
> manually and I was able to bring up the eth0 interface.   I
> then remembered that during the installation process I
> wasn't queried about DHCP, but thinking that I had found a
> work-around (via netconfig), I felt somewhat confident in
> shutting off the machine (after about a week).   Just for
> paranoia's sake, I immediately turned it back on to see if
> the process would work as expected.   It did.   So I went
> sleepy-bye with full confidence that the system would
> perform properly the next morning. (NOTE: since the new
> re-installation I have *not* been playing with modules)

> No such luck.   I tried the old netconfig trick about a
> dozen times.   I've used neat several times to remove and
> reinstall the device.   I've followed the documentation on
> the manual configuration of a DHCP client, but I still can't
> get the thing to work.

> Here are some particulars:

> uname -a:

> Linux localhost 2.4.7-10 #1 Thu Sep 6 17:27:27 EDT 2001 i686 unknown

> dmesg:

> Linux version 2.4.7-10 (bhcomp...@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc
> version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #1 Thu Sep 6
> 17:27:27 EDT 2001
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007fe0000 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000007fe0000 - 0000000007ff8000 (ACPI data)
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000007ff8000 - 0000000008000000 (ACPI NVS)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> Scanning bios EBDA for MXT signature
> On node 0 totalpages: 32736
> zone(0): 4096 pages.
> zone(1): 28640 pages.
> zone(2): 0 pages.
> Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=303
> BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10
> Initializing CPU#0
> Detected 399.106 MHz processor.
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 796.26 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 125140k/130944k available (1269k kernel code, 4520k reserved,
> 90k data, 220k init, 0k highmem)
> Dentry-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
> Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
> Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
> CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
> CPU: L2 cache: 128K
> Intel machine check architecture supported.
> Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
> CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU:     After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU:             Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05
> Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgo...@atnf.csiro.au)
> mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb91, last bus=1
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
> PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0e.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0c.0
> PCI: Failed to allocate resource 0(0-ffffffff) for 00:0e.0
> Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
> isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
> isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> Initializing RT netlink socket
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14)
> mxt_scan_bios: enter
> Starting kswapd v1.8
> VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
> pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
> Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT
> SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d
> block: queued sectors max/low 83058kB/27686kB, 256 slots per queue
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
> ide: Assuming 33MHz PCI bus speed for PIO modes; override with
> idebus=xx
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> PIIX4: chipset revision 1
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CX6.4A, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: ATAPI CDROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=784/255/63,
> UDMA(33)
> ide-floppy driver 0.97
> Partition check:
>  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> ide-floppy driver 0.97
> md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
> md: autorun ...
> md: ... autorun DONE.
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
> Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> Freeing initrd memory: 322k freed
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> Journalled Block Device driver loaded
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed
> Adding Swap: 257000k swap-space (priority -1)
> usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
> usb.c: registered new driver hub
> usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.259 $ time 17:36:49 Sep  6 2001
> usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
> PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:07.2
> usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xef80, IRQ 10
> usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
> usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
> hub.c: USB hub found
> hub.c: 2 ports detected
> usb-uhci.c: v1.251:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
> EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.8, 25 Aug 2001 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.8, 25 Aug 2001 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.8, 25 Aug 2001 on ide0(3,5), internal journal
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.8, 25 Aug 2001 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
> parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
> parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
> parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
> parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
> ip_conntrack (1023 buckets, 8184 max)
> Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre6 (July 2, 2001)
> PCI: Device 00:0e.0 not available because of resource collisions
> tulip: Cannot enable tulip board #0, aborting
> es1371: version v0.30 time 17:36:47 Sep  6 2001
> PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0c.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0e.0
> es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x04
> es1371: found es1371 rev 4 at io 0xef00 irq 9
> es1371: features: joystick 0x0
> ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4352:0x5903 (Cirrus Logic CS4297)
> ide-floppy driver 0.97
> hdc: ATAPI 50X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
> Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre6 (July 2, 2001)
> PCI: Device