RE: [gentoo-user] NE module, modprobe, etc.
-Original Message- From: W.Kenworthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2005 03:42 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NE module, modprobe, etc. Experience across a number of cards on a number of machines (both running 2.4 and early 2.6 kernels) says otherwise - and its not working so its worth a try! In fact, I cant remember it ever working without the irq option, even if the card uses auto. This brings up another memory - some cards refuse to work under auto, or plugnplay setting (planet I think in my case), I had to force a fixed IRQ with a jumper (nominally the same as the auto seemed to be). Whenever I boot a LiveCD (Gentoo, Knoppix, etc.) I have to kick start mine by: === modprobe ne io=0x300 irq=3 === If you have M$Windoze check which irq the card uses and adjust accordingly. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NE module, modprobe, etc.
You will also need the irq (irq=5) - may have to pull the card and check the jumpers, who load doze and see if it finds it if dual booted. This link gives some more info: http://clarkconnect.com/wiki/index.php?title=ISA_Network_Cards BillK On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 18:17 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: I've got an older machine whose NIC uses the ne module. When I run generate-modprobe.conf, I get the following two lines (among others) in my modprobe.conf: alias ne off install eth0 /bin/true If I change the one line to: alias eth0 ne and add this line: options ne io=0x330 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NE module, modprobe, etc.
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 06:39:09AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: You will also need the irq (irq=5) - may have to pull the card and check the jumpers, who load doze and see if it finds it if dual booted. This link gives some more info: http://clarkconnect.com/wiki/index.php?title=ISA_Network_Cards The IRQ is not needed on the ne driver unless you have more than one ne card in the machine. Paul On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 18:17 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: I've got an older machine whose NIC uses the ne module. When I run generate-modprobe.conf, I get the following two lines (among others) in my modprobe.conf: alias ne off install eth0 /bin/true If I change the one line to: alias eth0 ne and add this line: options ne io=0x330 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NE module, modprobe, etc.
Experience across a number of cards on a number of machines (both running 2.4 and early 2.6 kernels) says otherwise - and its not working so its worth a try! In fact, I cant remember it ever working without the irq option, even if the card uses auto. This brings up another memory - some cards refuse to work under auto, or plugnplay setting (planet I think in my case), I had to force a fixed IRQ with a jumper (nominally the same as the auto seemed to be). BillK On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 22:14 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 06:39:09AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: You will also need the irq (irq=5) - may have to pull the card and check the jumpers, who load doze and see if it finds it if dual booted. This link gives some more info: http://clarkconnect.com/wiki/index.php?title=ISA_Network_Cards The IRQ is not needed on the ne driver unless you have more than one ne card in the machine. Paul On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 18:17 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: I've got an older machine whose NIC uses the ne module. When I run generate-modprobe.conf, I get the following two lines (among others) in my modprobe.conf: alias ne off install eth0 /bin/true If I change the one line to: alias eth0 ne and add this line: options ne io=0x330 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NE module, modprobe, etc.
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 10:41:56 +0800 W.Kenworthy wrote: Experience across a number of cards on a number of machines (both running 2.4 and early 2.6 kernels) says otherwise - and its not working so its worth a try! actually if you read the original post the card IS working, the original question was asking about how a certain setting got set, as below: I've got an older machine whose NIC uses the ne module. When I run generate-modprobe.conf, I get the following two lines (among others) in my modprobe.conf: [snip] This is all gentoo 2005.0. I'm brand new to this, so could someone explain to me what is causing the original two lines in the modprobe.conf file, and what file I can edit (and how) to make the modules system do what I want? And the answer I suspect may be running a script called generate-modprobe.conf which I have never heard of. Unless something has changed the script is update-modules on gentoo. generate-modprobe.conf seems to come from module-init-tools and update-modules from baselayout. I suspect that the former is generic and the latter specific to gentoo. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NE module, modprobe, etc.
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:41:56AM +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: Experience across a number of cards on a number of machines (both running 2.4 and early 2.6 kernels) says otherwise - and its not working so its worth a try! In fact, I cant remember it ever working without the irq option, even if the card uses auto. This brings up another memory - some cards refuse to work under auto, or plugnplay setting (planet I think in my case), I had to force a fixed IRQ with a jumper (nominally the same as the auto seemed to be). Be that as it may, if you check my original post, you'll see that (after hacking the config files manually) I was able to run modprobe ne io=0x300 and the module would load, without specifying the IRQ setting. Aside from that, the original problem wasn't that I couldn't load the module. I could, but only _if_ I hacked the config files manually, in a way you weren't supposed to do. So the original question was how to hack them _correctly_ to make the load occur _automatically_. Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
