Hi.
I am using a rether modified Mandrake 7.0
Kernel replaced to 2.4.5 + bintools + pppd etc to suit.
(done by source build)
Whilst my lan works on W2K, on linux I cannot ping anything except
the local machine and the broadcast 192.168.1.255 address.
cat proc modules :
ppp_deflate 39132 0 (autoclean)
bsd_comp 4148 0 (autoclean)
ppp_async 6252 0 (autoclean)
ppp_generic 13300 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async]
slhc 4760 0 (autoclean) [ppp_generic]
ne 6856 1 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1 2900 4 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 4412 4 (autoclean)
vfat 8836 4 (autoclean)
fat 30552 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
sd_mod 10612 2 (autoclean)
es1370 25160 2
aic7xxx_old 110376 2
cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 69162 XT-PIC timer
1: 1044 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 74 XT-PIC serial
9: 0 XT-PIC NE2000
10: 24292 XT-PIC es1370
11: 81 XT-PIC aic7xxx
12: 6743 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
14: 52 XT-PIC ide0
15: 180947 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0
Section of messages boot-up log
Sep 7 11:39:12 pctop kernel: (scsi1) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs
Sep 7 11:39:12 pctop kernel: (scsi1) Downloading sequencer code... 422
instructions downloaded
---------------------------------snip------------------------------
Sep 7 11:39:12 pctop kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p4
Sep 7 11:39:12 pctop kernel: SCSI device sdb: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors
(101 MB)
Sep 7 11:39:12 pctop kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off
Sep 7 11:39:12 pctop kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target5/lun0: p1 p2 p4
Sep 7 11:39:12 pctop kernel: ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sep 7 11:39:12 pctop kernel: Last modified Nov 1, 2000 by Paul Gortmaker
Sep 7 11:39:12 pctop kernel: NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 20 18 03 69
7a
Sep 7 11:39:12 pctop kernel: eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 9.
-----------------------------------snip-----------------------------
Sep 7 11:39:11 pctop insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/drivers/net/ne.o:
post-install ne failed <27>Sep 7 11:39:11 insmod:
/lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/drivers/net/ne.o: insmod eth0 failed
Sep 7 11:39:11 pctop network: Bringing up interface eth0 succeeded
Sep 7 11:39:18 pctop kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Sep 7 11:39:19 pctop PAM_pwdb[630]: (su) session closed for user news
Sep 7 11:39:19 pctop linuxconf: Linuxconf final setup
Sep 7 11:39:20 pctop kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Sep 7 11:39:20 pctop rc: Starting linuxconf succeeded
Sep 7 11:39:22 pctop kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Sep 7 11:40:32 pctop kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Sep 7 11:40:39 pctop modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-10
Since I KNOW that the hardware is working - the problem is elsewhere.
>From the log above, it appears that the initial probe for an NE2000 did
succeed, with the same io= and irq= employed by W2K
The first sign of trouble seems to be tha failure of modprobe to load ne.0
experiments with stopping the network and using insmod & rmmod directly
show that it is only possible to `insmod' ne.o with io=0x300 but the irq=
parameter can be set to 5 instead of 9 and the insmod [appears] to work.
Even with te `correct' io= ; irq= cat /proc/interrupts never shows any
interrupts against irq:9
[I suppose] that the problem ia either:
1. ne.o driver broken.
2. Novell/Anthem NE2000 does not work with ne.o
3. something wrong with modules.conf
4. Something else blocking the ne.o .0 driver (like this
NETDEV_WATCHDOG) maybe?
It is quite possible that there IS something wrong with the modprobe.conf
script - but having modified it once and had to do a recovery from discette
I am not too keen on playing around with that !
modules.conf:
# ------------------------------
# rjp 20.10.00
# rjp 26.3.01
# ------------------------------
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias ppp0 ppp_async
alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async
alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
alias eth0 ne
options scsi_hostadapter irq=11
# ------------------------------
pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
post-install ne modprobe scsi_hostadapter
alias sound es1370
options ne io=0x300 irq=9
When eth0 is up, netstat -nr looks like this:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
192.168.1.4 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 40 0 0 eth0
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 40 0 0 lo
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Any comments welcome!
Regards, RJP
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RJP - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.sedric.demon.co.uk>.
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