Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: The wd module was there on the list, but install failed. The latest set of boot disks is missing the 8390 module which is loaded before the wd module. That should be fixed soon. I installed debian 'slink' and got it working. I did not have to do any windows programming for the card as was suggested by Anrei Ivanov on this list. Probably Nathan was right, it is some kind of kernel problem. I will go to 'potato', when this problem is fixed. Both 'potato' and Corel 1.1. 'failed' to install 'wd' module, which was needed by the card. (Wd is listed there on the list of networking modules, but it was not possible to install it.) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 09:08, virtanen wrote: The wd module was there on the list, but install failed. The latest set of boot disks is missing the 8390 module which is loaded before the wd module. That should be fixed soon. I installed debian 'slink' and got it working. I did not have to do any windows programming for the card as was suggested by Anrei Ivanov on this list. Probably Nathan was right, it is some kind of kernel problem. I will go to 'potato', when this problem is fixed. Both 'potato' and Corel 1.1. 'failed' to install 'wd' module, which was needed by the card. (Wd is listed there on the list of networking modules, but it was not possible to install it.) You can successfully install potato with this NIC, but not using the standard boot floppy set. I've successfully installed using the IDEPCI set. I believe the IDE set also works. Once you've got the basic system installed you can compile your own kernel and include any other modules you need that might be missing from this flavor of rescue/root/drivers floppies. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: It's a kernel problem, not a distribution problem. Your kernel, as compiled, probably does not have the wd.o module. Try recompiling the kernel and select Western Digital/SMC cards in 'make menuconfig', either 'y' or 'm'. That doesn't admit wd module at all. So the network didn't start working. The wd module was there on the list, but install failed. I'll try to go back to 'slink' now. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP)
One problem I had with that card is as follows: Ethernet-HOWTO suggests and you turn off the PnP mode, and set it to a specific IRQ/base. Until I did that, it would not work absolutely, and in syslog I would get a message about Tx/Rx timing out, possible IRQ loss. I swapped card out of computer, put it into a windows machine, ran the utility from SMC to set the card, put it back into Linux box, compile support into kernel, and it worked perfect. Andrei - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arhses.dyndns.org UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP)
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Andrei Ivanov wrote: One problem I had with that card is as follows: Ethernet-HOWTO suggests and you turn off the PnP mode, and set it to a specific IRQ/base. Until I did that, it would not work absolutely, and in syslog I would get a message about Tx/Rx timing out, possible IRQ loss. I swapped card out of computer, put it into a windows machine, ran the utility from SMC to set the card, put it back into Linux box, compile support into kernel, and it worked perfect. Andrei My machine has still got windows, too. Where can I get that 'utility from SMC'? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 08:39:20AM +0300, virtanen wrote: On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: It's a kernel problem, not a distribution problem. Your kernel, as compiled, probably does not have the wd.o module. Try recompiling the kernel and select Western Digital/SMC cards in 'make menuconfig', either 'y' or 'm'. That doesn't admit wd module at all. So the network didn't start working. The wd module was there on the list, but install failed. The latest set of boot disks is missing the 8390 module which is loaded before the wd module. That should be fixed soon. -- Nathan Norman Eschew Obfuscation Network Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/ Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7 pgpJLJgWeCybb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: The wd module was there on the list, but install failed. The latest set of boot disks is missing the 8390 module which is loaded before the wd module. That should be fixed soon. Meanwhile, what could I do? What kind of packet to install to get it working? (It happened so that when I went back to 'slink' and had the Corel LILO installed... the machine could not boot into win98 at all (It is on another disk, I need it for some work to do) and so I went back to Corel, which is otehrwise working now... And now I can boot to Corel or win. From Corel the 8930 module seems to be missing too.) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel
On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: Yup, the card is there. That's good ... Tried two things: 1) tried to install 'Potato'. (I used 'slink' earlier) That doesn't admit wd module at all. So the network didn't start working. 2) Tried to install 'Corel 1.1'. Did not make network working. Otherwise works, doesn't complain about the hardwares Conclusions? That card doesn't work with Debian/GNU Linux 'slink' or 'Potato'? Anyone else has got similar problems with that card? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel
It's a kernel problem, not a distribution problem. Your kernel, as compiled, probably does not have the wd.o module. Try recompiling the kernel and select Western Digital/SMC cards in 'make menuconfig', either 'y' or 'm'. On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:30:41PM +0300, virtanen wrote: On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: Yup, the card is there. That's good ... Tried two things: 1) tried to install 'Potato'. (I used 'slink' earlier) That doesn't admit wd module at all. So the network didn't start working. 2) Tried to install 'Corel 1.1'. Did not make network working. Otherwise works, doesn't complain about the hardwares Conclusions? That card doesn't work with Debian/GNU Linux 'slink' or 'Potato'? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP)
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 07:49:58PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got an ethercard as shown on the subject line. Can't get it wortking. Please do a `modprobe wd' and tell us the output of that (if any) plus the relavent bits from dmesg. 1) modprobe doesn't give any output. 2) dmesg: wd.c. presently autoprobing (etc) eth0: WD80x3 at 0x200, 00 00 CO AO 6C 66 WD8013, IRQ7, Shared memory at 0xc800 0-0xcbfff (In my opinion) this means that the card is working anyway? a) I tried to install 'slink' by installing 'base' from a dos-partition and tried the rest by 'apt'. But when going to 'dselect' the box doesn't get any connection to anywhere. b) What to do next? How could I probe that my IP address, netmask, gateway, etc are correct? I took all that info from a win partition. Would be advisable/possible to install some package, which could do automaticly all this job? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP)
Hello, On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 01:53:30PM +0300, virtanen wrote: On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 07:49:58PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got an ethercard as shown on the subject line. Can't get it wortking. Please do a `modprobe wd' and tell us the output of that (if any) plus the relavent bits from dmesg. 1) modprobe doesn't give any output. 2) dmesg: wd.c. presently autoprobing (etc) eth0: WD80x3 at 0x200, 00 00 CO AO 6C 66 WD8013, IRQ7, Shared memory at 0xc800 0-0xcbfff (In my opinion) this means that the card is working anyway? Well, it is detected here, anyway. Once it is detected, it must also be configured with ifconfig, though your startup scripts may be doing this already. To check this, after boot, run ifconfig eth0. If it is already configured, great. If not, you can try to ifconfig it from the command line, and when you get the card working, you can put the settings in your startup script (/etc/init.d/network for slink, it changed in potato). I tried to install 'slink' by installing 'base' from a dos-partition and tried the rest by 'apt'. But when going to 'dselect' the box doesn't get any connection to anywhere. What type of Internet connection are you using? If you're using a dialup connection, you must first install and configure PPP. (apt-get install ppp pppconfig, then run pppconfig.) If you're using some other connection method (cable-modem, dsl, etc.) you will also need to install and configure support for it (and start the connection) before you can get online. Before apt (or deselect with the apt method) will work you will also need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list so apt will know where to look for package info. How could I probe that my IP address, netmask, gateway, etc are correct? I took all that info from a win partition. If the settings work with another OS, then they should be correct for linux. Would be advisable/possible to install some package, which could do automaticly all this job? I would recommend installing the packages ppp and pppconfig, then run pppconfig. It will prompt you for all the info it needs to configure PPP. Another option is the wvdial package, but I've had little success with it. -- David Karlin Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP)
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 01:53:30PM +0300, virtanen wrote: 2) dmesg: wd.c. presently autoprobing (etc) eth0: WD80x3 at 0x200, 00 00 CO AO 6C 66 WD8013, IRQ7, Shared memory at 0xc800 0-0xcbfff (In my opinion) this means that the card is working anyway? Yup, the card is there. That's good ... a) I tried to install 'slink' by installing 'base' from a dos-partition and tried the rest by 'apt'. But when going to 'dselect' the box doesn't get any connection to anywhere. b) What to do next? How could I probe that my IP address, netmask, gateway, etc are correct? I took all that info from a win partition. Would be advisable/possible to install some package, which could do automaticly all this job? Well, that depends on your network ... if they're using DHCP you should use a DHCP client. Debian has three that I know of: pump, dhcpcd, and dhcp-client. I've had the best luck with dhcp-client, though your experience may be different. Once you configure your IP settings either manually or via DHCP, make sure the output of `ifconfig' lists both lo and eth0 interfaces. `netstat -rn' should show a network route for your ethernet segment and a default route. Try to ping the gateway for the default route. If you can't ping the gateway something is screwed up with your ethernet or with your IP settings. If you can ping the gateway but can't get out to the world something (or someone) is blocking your traffic. Make sure you haven't installed any firewalling packages; those can cause a lot of trouble if you're trying to get setup for the first time. HTH, -- Nathan Norman Eschew Obfuscation Network Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/ Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7 pgpw3C6j4KEXT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP)
Hi, I've got an ethercard as shown on the subject line. Can't get it wortking. Somebody else has got the same or knows, what is the problem. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP)
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 07:49:58PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got an ethercard as shown on the subject line. Can't get it wortking. Somebody else has got the same or knows, what is the problem. Hard to say since you didn't tell us what the problem is. Please do a `modprobe wd' and tell us the output of that (if any) plus the relavent bits from dmesg. -- Nathan Norman Eschew Obfuscation Network Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/ Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7 pgpITPICH61n3.pgp Description: PGP signature
