Re: etherexpress card and modconf

[John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Don Seiler wrote:

>hullo.
>
>I'm having trouble getting my Intel EtherExpress card online.  Using
>modconf, when I try at add the "eexpress" module, it first does an
>autoprobe and returns this:
>eexpress
>
>io = 0x300
>irq = 0           (IRQ value read from EEPROM)

Impossible.  The irq is between 1 and 15.  IRQ 0 is the CPU.

>So I assume I need to specify the irq.  I _believe_ the irq is 14, but
>I've tried 9 and 5 also, and all return the same error:

No, in fact, you don't.  The eexpress module does a good job of
autodetecting IRQ.

>/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net/eexpress.o: init_module: Device or resource
>busy
>Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
>invalid IO or IRQ parameters
>
>This is followed by failure messages.
>
>The command-line parameter I am using in modconf is this:
>options eexpress io=0x300 irq=14

Try without any io and irq.  Sometimes the module will autodetect.  If you
have no idea of the ioport and IRQ and the module doesn't autodetect,
contact me offlist for a Softset disk...

>I found that line on a webpage so have no idea if it is correct or not.
>That's when I decided the actual mailing list might be helpful.
>
>The ethernet card did work yesterday when RedHat was on it.  But let's
>not speak of that again.
>
>Any help would be very ... helpful.
>
>Thanks,
>Don.
>
>
>

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