i've got a pnp NIC, and i had to disable PnP. once i did, it's the best ethernet
card i've ever had (3c509b-tpo).
disable pnp, use the ne, and you probably don't even have to tell it what irq/io, i
didn't hate to.
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:41:02 -0600, Kojo Idrissa said:
> 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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