Hi guys,
My ethernet card (LinkSys NC100 PCI Ethernet card that came with a 5-Port
Starter Kit) worked under Mandrake 6.0. I downloaded the ISO images of
Mandrake 7.1 and freshly installed it on the same machine, and the ethernet
driver does not load.
Under Mandrake 6.0, the original Tulip driver that came with the
distribution did not seem to work. (I'm not sure if the insmod of that
driver revealed unresolved symbols.) I downloaded the new Tulip driver
source rpm from http://www.scyld.com. This rpm compiled and installed
tulip.o and pci-scan.o. I had to insmod pci-scan.o first and then the
insmod of tulip.o worked. I updated the dependencies with /sbin/depmod -a,
and with the following change to /etc/conf.modules, the driver worked upon
boot.
Change to /etc/conf.modules:
alias eth0 tulip
options tulip options=0 debug=1
Now, in Mandrake 7.1, there is no pci-scan.o module. This is what happens:
[root@localhost /root]# insmod tulip
Using /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksecure/net/tulip.o
/lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksecure/net/tulip.o: init_module: Device or resource
busy[root@localhost /root]#
I assumed that the driver needed the IO address and/or IRQ. Specifying
those gives the following messages:
[root@localhost /root]# insmod tulip io=0xee00 irq=11
Using /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksecure/net/tulip.o
/lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksecure/net/tulip.o: invalid parameter parm_io
[root@localhost /root]#
...and similarly with the IRQ.
Perchance that the Scyld driver would work, I backed up
/lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksecure/net to /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksecure/net2,
and then installed the Scyld rpm with the pci-scan.o in it. Insmoding
pci-scan.o revealed 11 unresolved dependencies.
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So, my question is: given the same hardware, why is Mandrake 7.1's Tulip
driver unable to recognize the Ethernet card, while it worked with
Scyld.com's driver in Mandrake 6.0?
Jay
p.s:
1) Also, a program called HardDrake did not recognize that a Network card
was present on my machine?
2) And, below is the output of /proc/pci. Note the presence of the Ethernet
controller the second from last.
[root@localhost /root]# cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C598 Apollo MVP3 (rev 4).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
Latency=64. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf8000000 [0xf8000008].
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
PCI bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C598 Apollo MVP3 AGP (rev 0).
Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=8.
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
ISA bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C596 Apollo Mobile (rev 6).
Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts.
Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
IDE interface: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 6).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
Latency=64. I/O at 0xffa0 [0xffa1].
Bus 0, device 7, function 2:
USB Controller: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo USB (rev 2).
Medium devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=64.
I/O at 0xea00 [0xea01].
Bus 0, device 7, function 3:
Bridge: VIA Technologies Unknown device (rev 0).
Vendor id=1106. Device id=3050.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable.
Bus 0, device 19, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 17).
Vendor id=1317. Device id=985.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master Capable.
Latency=64. Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
I/O at 0xee00 [0xee01].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfebffc00 [0xfebffc00].
Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: ATI Unknown device (rev 122).
Vendor id=1002. Device id=4757.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
Latency=64. Min Gnt=8.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfd000000 [0xfd000000].
I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfeaff000 [0xfeaff000].
[root@localhost /root]#
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