In these situations, don't things work better if you set the jumpers on the
card to give it a specific IO and IRQ, then tell Linux what they are? I
had similar problems with one of those Sound-Card Controlled CD-ROMs under
Slackware 3.5. Once I told it which IO/IRQ to use, it was smooth sailing.
Just my $.02...someone else on the list may know better.
At 08:20 PM 12/12/00 -0600, you wrote:
>I am trying to get my ISA ethernet card to work. It is a Startech card. It
>says that it is 100% ne2000 compatible, and Linux compatible. AN ne2000 card
>which is isa, should use the 'ne' modules right?
>
>Well the card has 2 modes, jumper mode or jumperless. Jumperless means PnP,
>and this is the mode I have the card in. I know that my mobo works with
>ISA PnP
>cards, b/c I have a ISA sb16 vibra PnP card which works fine. In the Plug and
>Play section of my BIOS, 2 cards are mentioned, sound blaster vibra 16, and
>plug and play ethernet. So the bios knows that it is there, but linux
>doesn't.
> I also have a pci ne2k-pci card which works fine, but I need the pci slot
>for my new scsi controller. To make sure that there is no resource conflict I
>removed every card on board (except video card, and the ISA NIC). I then
>booted up, and tried to insert the ne module, and the n2 moduel. Neither
>worked. Here is the results.
>
>sam060@storm:~$ su
>Password:
>storm:/home/sam060# lsmod
>Module Size Used by
>soundcore 2644 0 (autoclean) (unused)
>lockd 31084 1 (autoclean)
>sunrpc 51804 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
>nls_cp437 3948 2 (autoclean)
>vfat 9828 1 (autoclean)
>fat 31564 1 (autoclean) [vfat]
>cdrom 27168 0
>storm:/home/sam060# modprobe -v ne
>/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.2.16-storm/net/8390.o
>/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.2.16-storm/net/ne.o
>/lib/modules/2.2.16-storm/net/ne.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
>Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
>invalid IO or IRQ parameters
>/lib/modules/2.2.16-storm/net/ne.o: insmod
>/lib/modules/2.2.16-storm/net/ne.o failed
># delete 8390
>/lib/modules/2.2.16-storm/net/ne.o: insmod ne failed
>storm:/home/sam060# modprobe -v n2
>/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.2.16-storm/net/syncppp.o
>/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.2.16-storm/net/hdlc.o
>/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.2.16-storm/net/n2.o
>/lib/modules/2.2.16-storm/net/n2.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
>Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
>invalid IO or IRQ parameters
>/lib/modules/2.2.16-storm/net/n2.o: insmod
>/lib/modules/2.2.16-storm/net/n2.o failed
># delete hdlc
># delete syncppp
>/lib/modules/2.2.16-storm/net/n2.o: insmod n2 failed
>storm:/home/sam060#
>
>What does "Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
>including invalid IO or IRQ parameters" mean? Should I be passing arguements
>about irq etc when I modprobe?
>
>Please help. I already took a Kingston ISA (ne2000 compliant) card back b/c I
>thought that maybe was defective or incompatibe with my mobo. But now I
>believe that is is something I am not doing.
>
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