problem in uprgrading tulip driver

Jean-François Combeau comjf at club-internet.fr
Tue Jun 5 12:06:44 PDT 2001


Hello !
I use a 2.2.17 kernel and I tried to upgrade my tulip driver using the
folowing method:

# Transfer the Scyld PCI Netdriver package
#  Perhaps use ncftpget
ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdriver-2.1.src.rpm
rpm -i ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdriver-2.1.src.rpm
# Build the binary version for your kernel
cd /usr/src/{redhat,TurboLinux,packages}/
rpm -bb SPECS/netdriver*.spec
# Now install it your newly built package.
rpm -i --force RPMS/i386/netdriver-2.1-*.i386.rpm

Note: it is now netdrivers-2.1.6-1.i586.rpm I downloaded.

I rebooted my box and i saw during Init phase that my network card wasnt up.
Ifconfig list only Lo interface.

an insmod command list several problem I list after:

Jun  5 20:10:07 route insmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/pci-scan.o: insmod eth1 failed
Jun  5 20:11:22 route insmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol
__ioremap_R9eac042a
Jun  5 20:11:22 route insmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol
pci_find_class_R6c460806
Jun  5 20:11:22 route insmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol
pci_write_config_word_Rd9cc3b03
Jun  5 20:11:22 route insmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol
pci_write_config_dword_Rf0fbd200
Jun  5 20:11:22 route insmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol
pci_read_config_dword_R2ca7e89f
Jun  5 20:11:22 route insmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol
pci_read_config_byte_Re5ceea13
Jun  5 20:11:22 route insmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol
pci_write_config_byte_Re84d5397
Jun  5 20:11:22 route insmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol
check_region_R522f4d72
Jun  5 20:11:22 route insmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol
pci_set_master_R040f6432
Jun  5 20:11:22 route insmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol
printk_R1b7d4074
Jun  5 20:11:22 route insmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/pci-scan.o: unresolved symbol
pci_read_config_word_R8764d15f
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol netif_rx_Rd5d5d73a
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol release_region_R43bde9b1
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol unregister_netdev_Rfe1346ad
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol pci_write_config_dword_Rf0fbd200
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol kmalloc_R93d4cfe6
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol pci_read_config_byte_Re5ceea13
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol eth_type_trans_Rfc82aee7
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol add_timer_Rbea990b2
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol init_etherdev_R215a70d1
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol skb_over_panic_R71d40dc3
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol pci_drv_unregister
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol bh_active_Rfff9d0a3
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol __kfree_skb_R73e5bcf9
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol jiffies_R0da02d67
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol free_irq_Rf20dabd8
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol request_region_R6d32b2d7
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol kfree_R037a0cba
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol printk_R1b7d4074
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol iounmap_R5fb196d4
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol alloc_skb_Rf7d7cd23
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol dev_close_Rbd41f138
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol request_irq_R0c60f2e0
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol del_timer_R5811f067
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol eth_copy_and_sum_Rfbc2605c
Jun  5 20:11:35 route insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdksecure/net/tulip.o:
unresolved symbol pci_drv_register

What can be done to make the check dependencies work and to allow linux to
load the module tulip.o used by my network card NETGEAR FA 310TX?

thanks for yur help!

Jeff
System and network ingeneer.





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