On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:57:59PM +0530, Ramesh K wrote:
> Hello,
> I have installed RTlinux in my PC. My ethernet card doesn't
> work now. But if I boot the machine with older kernel, the card works.
> Immediately after this, if I boot with RT kernel, the card works, but if
> booted after some time the network is inaccessible- may the settings are
> lost during power down.
> My card is an smc-ultra, with 8390 chip set. I compiled the RTKernel
> with these options. In regular kernel (Linux 2.2.5), lsmod gives the
> following
> smc-ultra
> 8390
> When booted with RT Kernel, these listings are not there. I tried to
> follow Phil's Installation instructions, and added '/sbin/modprobe eth0'
> in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, but this reports eth0 not found, at boot.
> I downloaded the smc-ultra and 8390 modules from rtlinux.org. When I
> loaded this using insmod with arguments io=0x300 and irq=11 (similar to
> my old settings), the card is now recognized as eth1, and still the
> network is not accessible. Please give some suggestions.
>
> Thanks for your time and patience.
Have you tried compiling the driver into the kernel? Or at the very
least, make sure that the modules for the ethernet card get loaded before any
RTLinux modules.
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