Re: Problem w/ T23 and NIC (eepro100)
On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 20:25, Bryan Daniels wrote:
> I am running Debian 2.2_Rev4, kernel 2.2.19 on a Think
> Pad T23 with an Intel(R) PRO/100 network card. As far
> as I can tell from the HOWTO for Ethernet, this
> requires the eepro100 network module. I have been
> unable to get the NIC recognized.
>
> Originally, I was using 2.2.19-idepci because that was
> the only version I could boot off of the CDROM
> distribution. Unfortunately, the idepci version did
> not have eepro100 available as a module--though if I
> am reading the config file created by make
> menu-config, it does look like it might be compiled
> directly into the kernel. In any case, I tried
> recompiling a customized kernel providing eepro100 as
> a module. It appears to have compiled--at least it
> shows up in /lib/moduled/2.2.19/. Still no luck.
>
> The response I get from 'insmod eeprp100' and
> 'modprobe eepro100' is:
> # depmod -a; modprobe eepro100
> # eepro100.c: init_module: Device or resource busy
> Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module
> paramaters, including invalid IO and IRQ parameters.
>
> I know that the card works (at least under WindowsXP).
>
> Not sure what to do. Any advice would be appreciated.
You could look to the e100 module, which is a different version of
support for the eepro100. It's not part of the standard kernel, but it
is available as a package in 'unstable'. You could also look at using a
more recent kernel - 2.2.19 is pretty old now, and your laptop could be
substantially newer.
I have an A21p with an eepro100 in it and I use the eepro100 driver and
a 2.4.4 kernel (I'd use a newer kernel myself but Nokia don't provide
open-source drivers for the C110/C111 wireless LAN card that I use).
I had a problem with a desktop system recently where the Intel PRO/100
network card wouldn't work with 2.2.19, 2.2.20 or 2.4.17, but once I
switched to the e100 module things have been fine (touch wood!).
You might also want to do an "lspci -v" just to confirm your network
card is identified as something like:
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev
0c)
Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2205
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 9
Memory at f0120000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at 1800 [size=64]
Memory at f0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Regards,
Andrew.
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