Re: Troubles: Internet, Printer, Sound More.

["David R. Litwin" <presently42@gmail.com>]

dmesg:

3c59x.c 18Feb (goes on to say the Ethernet's name.)
eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xb800, 00:50:da:b8:ae:ea, IRQ 0
***Warning! IRQ 0 is unlikely to work!***
     8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split/autoselect/Autonegotiate
     MII transceiver found at address 24 (writing?), status 782d (writing?)
Enabling bus-master transmitter (writing?) and whole-frame receiver.

later on:

eth0: Initial media type Autonegotiate.
eth0: MII #24 status 782d, link partner capability 0021, setting half-duplex
eth0: Cannot allocate IRQ #0.
PCI deivce '3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx' was not assigned an IRQ
It will not be activated.

lspci -vv:

00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corp blah (rev 64).
            Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C905B Fast Etherlink XL 10/100.
            Control: I/O Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
            Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- PIVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
             Latency: 32(200ns min, 2500ns max), Cache lie size 08
             Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0
             Region0: I/O portsat b800
             Region1: Memory at e3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
             Capabilities: [dc] pofter (writing?) management version 1 (maybe.)
             Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-, D1+,
D2+, D3hot+, D3cold-)
              Status: D0 PME- Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-


The modprobe, as usual, didn't work. The message:

Warning: /lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci/net/3c59x.o symbol tur(?)
parameter deug(?) not found. /lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci/net/3c59x.o:
init_modlue: Device or resource busy.
Hint: insmod error can be caused by incorrect modlue parameters,
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
/lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci/net/3c59x.o:
insmod/lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci/net/3c59x.o failed.
/lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci/net/3c59x.o: 3c59x failed.

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