Old machine... Packard Bell, Pentium 100, PB600 M/B. Phoenix BIOS 4.04, Agoura 1.20 (latest available). I've tried 2 PCI NICs (one at a time) with basically the same results -- Kingston KNE111TX/100B using the tulip driver and HPTX 10/100 (D5013) using eepro100, using the latest drivers from scyld.com. kudzu recognized new hardware for both, but didn't select a driver for the Kingston (which was before installing the scyld drivers). With both NICs, trying to bring up the interface fails. 'ifup ethx' results in the following in /var/log/messages: Apr 9 19:18:53 pb100 kernel: eepro100.c:v1.13 1/9/2001 Donald Becker <becker@sc yld.com> Apr 9 19:18:53 pb100 kernel: http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html Apr 9 19:18:53 pb100 kernel: PCI device 'Intel PCI EtherExpress Pro100' was not assigned an IRQ. Apr 9 19:18:53 pb100 kernel: It will not be activated. Apr 9 19:18:53 pb100 kernel: eepro100: No cards found, driver not installed. Apr 9 19:18:53 pb100 insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.12-20/net/eepro100.o: init_module : Device or resource busy Before going too far -- PNP is OFF in the BIOS -- I even tried turning it on, just to test. Output from dmesg, /proc/pci and the eepro100-diag app from scyld follow. Everything points to a BIOS issue which may well be the case, but I've got the latest (albeit old) update, there's no BIOS option to manually config PCI slots, and I've tried the NIC in all slots as the ONLY add-on device in the machine. Am I SOL here, or is there something else to try? Any suggestions appreciated... bd dmesg output: Linux version 2.2.12-20 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Sep 27 10:25:54 EDT 1999 Detected 99548389 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 39.63 BogoMIPS Memory: 103336k/106496k available (1008k kernel code, 412k reserved, 1396k data, 64k init) DENTRY hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 05 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc7f5 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS version 1.1 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.9) Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size CMD640: ignored by ide_scan_pci_device() (uses own driver) ide0: buggy cmd640b interface on PCI (type1), config=0x7e ide1: not serialized, secondary interface not responding cmd640: drive0 timings/prefetch(on) preserved cmd640: drive1 timings/prefetch(on) preserved hda: Maxtor 72700 AP, ATA DISK drive hdb: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:271, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: Maxtor 72700 AP, 2583MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=656/128/63 hdb: ATAPI 4X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed 8regs : 97.155 MB/sec 32regs : 69.723 MB/sec using fastest function: 8regs (97.155 MB/sec) scsi: 0 hosts. scsi: detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. change_root: old root has d_count=1 Trying to unmount old root ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed Adding Swap: 129016k swap-space (priority -1) EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended /proc/pci: PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: VLSI 82C594-AFC2 (rev 1). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=16. Bus 0, device 6, function 0: ISA bridge: VLSI Unknown device (rev 1). Vendor id=1004. Device id=8. Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts. Bus 0, device 10, function 0: VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5434 (rev 252). Fast devsel. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfd000000 [0xfd000000]. Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Ethernet controller: Intel 82557 (rev 2). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=66. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfecff000 [0xfecff008]. I/O at 0xfce0 [0xfce1]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfed00000 [0xfed00000]. Bus 0, device 13, function 0: IDE interface: CMD 640 (buggy) (rev 2). Medium devsel. IRQ 14. eepro100-diag output: eepro100-diag.c:v2.02 7/19/2000 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html Index #1: Found a Intel i82557 (or i82558) EtherExpressPro100B adapter at 0xfce0. This chip has not been assigned a valid IRQ, and will not function. This must be fixed in the PCI BIOS setup. The device driver has no way of changing the PCI IRQ settings. Use '-a' or '-aa' to show device registers, '-e' to show EEPROM contents, -ee for parsed contents, or '-m' or '-mm' to show MII management registers. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
