Re: Lost PCI Network card after potato upgrade.
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 08:36:29AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote
> Hello, I will try this question again without the attempt at humor...
>
> I upgraded my slink system to potato using dselect 3-4 days ago. After
> the initalruns through dselect/install/config/remove there weretwo
> problems still being reported.
>
> #1 the gcc deb file would not load because of a conflicht with an old
> libg++.
> #2 setserial would not configure.
>
> I removed the old libg++272 (I think that was its name) and gcc seemed
> to install fine.
>
> The error messages during the configureation of setserial said that my
> modules needed to be updated and to run
> "update-module force" and run configure again. Well, I did this and the
> above listed fix and now my network card is no longer detected. (Note:
> I noticed the problem after I rebooted the system so I am not sure
> exactly what is causing this.
>
> I looked in my /var/log/kern.log file and found these differences before
>
> and after the reboot.
>
> The last line in this file has the line (note: the *date systemname* is
> acutially the date time and systemname at the time of the reboot. I
> just didn't feel like typing it all in each time).
>
> *date systemname* kernel: ne.c No PCI cards found. use "io=0xNNN" values
>
> for ISA cards.
>
> Prior to the problem (earlier in the file) I had the following:
>
> *date systemname* kernel: ne.c v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becher (*email
> address*)
> *date systemname* kernel: NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300 00 50 4e 03 8b
>
> d6
> *date systemname* kernel: eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300 using IRQ 3
>
With slink, the way in which /etc/conf.modules is maintained has changed;
previously you (and any installation scripts that needed to) would edit
/etc/conf.modules directly, which is a real pain (especially for scripts);
now snippets are stored in /etc/modutils/, and update-modules uses them to
re-build /etc/conf.modules. See /usr/doc/modutils/ for full details, but
you probably want to add a file with a descriptive name like 'ne' to
/etc/modutils, and place the line
options ne io=0x300 irq=3
in it and then re-run update-modules. That should fix it.
John P.
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