Re: woody/PowerMac 6400 - PCI NIC not seen
Tried the 3.0.21-2002-03-25 floppies. Still no luck. The 6400's PCI bus must
be strange territory for the kernel used on the floppies: neither the
PCI-attached ethernet card nor the USB card are mentioned in dmesg.
-B...
>> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:46:50PM -0600, Bruce A. Burdick, Jr. wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:59:34PM -0600, Bruce A. Burdick, Jr. wrote:
>>> [... Snip ...]
>>>
>>>> I have this network card, but I'm using a 2.4.X kernel.
>>>> Is the card already being used by ng_tulip compiled into the kernel?
>>>> What does dmesg say?
>>>>
>>>> Another suggestion maybe to download the tulip driver source, pci-scan(?)
>>>> from <http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html>.
>>>>
>>>> Anthony
>>>
>>> It's a chicken-and-egg problem. I can't get anything to recognize the card.
>>> But I'm hoping to do a net install. So I can't get at dmesg yet -- Linux
>>> isn't installed. Unless you know of some tricks I don't.
>>
>> dmesg is available in the installer.
>
> Thanks for the tip about dmesg in the installer. I don't know why I was just
> assuming that it wouldn't be there.
>
> dmesg reports that the card isn't detected. There is one line about PCI,
> "PCI: Probing PCI hardware", and then a line about adb devices. That's it.
> Absolutely no mention of the network card. This same card works beautifully
> in Mac OS on this machine, and in other machines under LinuxPPC (I haven't
> installed any other Linux distros on this machine).
>
>> When you configured the kernel modules in the installer, did you configure
>> a tulip driver?
>
> I tried to configure ng_tulip. That's what started this whole thread.
>
> -B...
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