I have a Toshiba Satellite 4015CDT with a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 PC card (and
the modem which came with the laptop). Until last week, I had Red Hat 5.0, and
life was good; the network card worked with multiple schemes and no problems.
Last week I upgraded to 5.2, and now I can't get the network card to work. I'm
sure it's something simple, but my random fumblings have been unsuccessful.
It's being recognized correctly ("cardctl ident" shows it), but I think it's
failing because eth0 isn't being created correctly. ifconfig doesn't show
eth0, and the message log shows
...kernel: eth0: NE2000 Compatible: port 0x300, irq 5, hw_addr ...
...cardmgr[205]: executing: './network start eth0'
...cardmgr[205]: + usage: ifup <device name>
...cardmgr[205]: start cmd exited with status 1
modprobe -c shows eth0 aliased to "off". I added "alias eth0 ne" and "options
ne io=0x300 irq=5" to my /etc/conf.modules, but after rebooting, "modprobe -c |
grep eth0" shows both "alias eth0 ne" and "alias eth0 off" (and I still don't
have an eth0).
Another thing is that "modprobe ne" reports "NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300:
not found (invalid signature ff ff)." (Which reminds me, I added
"PCIC_OPTS=poll_interval=100" to my /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia because I was seeing
"RequestIRQ: Resource in use" messages. No idea how that affects things.)
Any idea what I'm doing wrong? (There is a CardBus version of this card which
uses the tulip driver; other people who've asked about this card on newsgroups
have been told to try tulip.c v0.90 using the instructions on Linksys' site,
which I did, but I think that card is different than the one I have.)
--Rusty
