Hi John,

It's just a guess, but have you tried using lower case alpha's in your hex
addresses, i.e.:

noauto,0xEE00,0xEE01,0xEE02,portname:OSA1,eth0
becomes
noauto,0xee00,0xee01,0xee02,portname:osa1,eth0

I frequently find that nothing in upper case works in Linux (but that's not
always true, and it may be that the hex addresses need to be lower while
'osa' needs to be 'OSA').

Good Luck.

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-----Original Message-----
From: John P Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 11:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: getting GB ethernet working with SLES 7


OK, I've looked at previous posts on this topic but can't put this
together so that it works.

There is no problem when I use SuSE 7.0, I simply specify the
control-read,write and data options with the portname option during the
initial ramdisk install and hey presto it works:
noauto,0xEE00,0xEE01,0xEE02,portname:OSA1,eth0

SLES initial ramdisk install looks like it should be simple: read,write
and control prompt: 0xEE00,0xEE01,0xEE02
Is service level above xxxx: yes
Specify portname: OSA1

==> "qeth received an IDX TERMINATE on irq 0x8F2/0x8F3 with cause code
0x22 try another portname"

So after choosing "no network".

Looking a /proc/chandev I see that 0x8F2 is the "irq" associated with
0xEE00, ditto for 0x8F3 and 0xEE01.

I believe that /etc/chandev should end-up being set to:

add_parms,0x10,0xEE00,0xEE02,portname:OSA1
qeth0,0xEE00,0xEE01,0xEE02

and modules.conf should have an entry:

alias eth0 qeth

What I don't know is how to manually concoct an "insmod qeth" command so
as to get this working. Anyone care to volunteer the missing piece of
the puzzel?

TIA

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Linux & VM Systems Support
Hursley IT
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