Re: NIC Recognition

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 22:51:47 -0500 Stephen Tenhet <stenhet saftek com>
spake unto us:

> Running Redhat 7.0
> 
> 
> I had a problem with a D-Link DFE-550Tx nic card, so I removed it.
> 
> I installed a Linksys LNE100TX card. This card is supposedly supported
> by the tulip.o file. I configured everything, but continue to get
> startup messages indicating the card is not being activated.
> Specifically insmod failure and the hing that the IO or IRQ may not be
> set properly. This is a pci card.
> 
> I really need some help getting the network card setup. Any ideas would
> be appreciated.

Have the same problem (7.1 won't be installed till my new machine gets
here). I tried rmmod followed by insmod & it worked. Then I brought up
eth0 just fine. I finally put commands at the end of rc.local to do the
work on reboot.

Here's what I added:

/sbin/ifdown eth0 > /dev/null 2>&1
/sbin/rmmod tulip > /dev/null 2>&1
/sbin/insmod tulip > /dev/null 2>&1
/sbin/ifup eth0 > /dev/null 2>&1
/sbin/firemasq > /dev/null 2>&1

The rmmod likely isn't necessary, but it doesn't hurt anything and avoids
problems if the driver decides to work right later. Same with the ifdown
part.

Note that this has been necessary for me with the 2.4 kernels for some
reason. I also get the same error about an IRQ conflict but, it works just
fine after doing the little tricks above. This happens with the same board
you have, the DLINK board I have, and a board that uses the ne2k-pci
module. It happens with redhat-released kernels and self-compiled kernels.

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