Re: NIC problem
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 12:02:52PM -0700, Craig Jones wrote:
> I have an old 386 on which I am trying to do an FTP install of potato.
> The NIC inside is a Western Digital and seems to be functioning all right
> (I got linux going from one of those floppy distributions, set everything
> up and was able to ping everywhere and log in to a computer at work. So
> the NIC and cabling are working all right.)
>
> When I boot off of the rescue/root/driver-1.bin files, everything goes all
> right until it tries to do a modprobe on the wd.o module. The default for
> that module is right as I checked it doing a ftp install using RedHat and
> the NIC worked. But, under Debian it keeps coming up device is not
> working and it might be an IO/IRQ problem.
>
> Any ideas on what I can try? The NIC does work. The IO/IRQ etc "should"
> be right, but that boot version of linux just does not want to modprobe.
Can you install the base system? Then try to modprobe wd from command
line and post the resulting error message(s).
Install kernel docs and check the correct command-line options for wd
module (net-modules.txt in Documentation/networking). (Also, if this is
your primary NI, compile wd driver in the kernel.)
Dima
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