Re: Problem installing SMC 8013wc NIC
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 16:00:19 -0700 (PDT) David Smead
<smead@amplepower.com> writes:
> I'm doing some guessing, but often that works.
>
> How do you know that modprobe didn't find the card and install the
> correct
> driver?
It first tells me that the "Installation failed. Then in the next step
of the install process, as I remember (I'm at home now) it tells me it
could not find the network card, and to go back and make sure the modules
were installed correctly, or some such thing. I suppose it could be a
bad network card. Maybe I should try another one of these systems before
I blame the driver install.
>
> What does ifconfig tell you?
>
> What is in /etc/modules?
>
> What is in /etc/network/interfaces?
>
> And what is in /etc/networks?
I don't have an answer for these last four questions, but as soon as I
can get back to work, I'll check and see. Thanks, David.
Randy
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> David Smead
> http://www.amplepower.com.
>
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 rh.ccm@juno.com wrote:
>
> > 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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