Re: Problem installing SMC 8013wc NIC
Hi,
Can anyone tell me if there's another way to get a network card module to
install. I sent the following post Thursday, but got no response, and
I'm stuck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am trying to install Debian potato on an Compaq Prolinea 4/50 with an
SMC network card (ISA), and am having a problem. When I go to "Configure
the device driver modules" and then to the "net -- Drivers for network
interface card..." step, it won't install the modules for the network
card.
Here's some info from the SMC card:
the back of the card says, "8013wc"
the FCC # is JI58013wc
the chipset number is 83c690LJP f9411
When I run Slackware's Net.i utility it reports:
Eth0: WD80x3 at 0x300 00 00 c0 f1 00 8e
WD 8013 IRQ 10 shared memory at 0xd0000 - 0xd3fff
So, I'm presuming this is SMC's 8013 series card.
The modules that I have tried to install are "wd" and "smc-ultra"
(actually, I've tried all the SMC modules and a few others). Also, I
have tried to add various combinations of command line arguments for io,
irq, mem & mem_end, based on the above info reported by Net.i, but I
still get the "Installation failed" message. I've checked out SMC web
site driver page, but can only find a text file (of code) for the Linux
driver. Maybe I'm supposed to compile this into a driver file or
something -- I have no idea.
I may have access to a number of these similarly configured Compaq
systems, and would like to try them on a Debian network of inexpensive
computers, so I am hoping to find a fix using the SMC card. Any help
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Randy
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