Re: Ethernet trouble
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
>
> Seeking help using a network card in a PC. The card is a Linksys Etherfast
> 10/100 LAN card.
Do you know what revision (ie v1 vs v2 vs v3 vs v4) of card this is?
[...]
> Here is result of "modprobe tulip":
> /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/tulip.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
> Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
> invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/tulip.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/tulip.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/tulip.o: insmod tulip failed
>
> Here is result of "lspci":
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C691 [Apollo PRO] (rev c4)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3 AGP]
> 00:04.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Apollo PRO] (rev 23)
> 00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 10)
> 00:04.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 11)
> 00:04.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3050 (rev 30)
> 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Bridgecom, Inc: Unknown device 0985 (rev 11)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X
> (rev 5c)
[...]
> Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
> Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 17).
> Vendor id=1317. Device id=985.
^^^^ ^^^
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Master Capable.
> Latency=32. Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
> I/O at 0xb000 [0xb001].
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe1000000 [0xe1000000].
The entire problem is that the card is not supported by the tulip driver
2.2.x kernel series :( It is, however, directly supported by the
2.4.0-testx/2.4.x series of kernels.
It's a long story as to why the driver is so far out of date.
You can get an updated driver from
http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html. I've never been able to get
these drivers (off the scyld web pages) to work for me, but it's been a
while since I've tried.
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Phil Brutsche pbrutsch@tux.creighton.edu
"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstien
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