EtherExpress PRO/100+ PCI problems
Steven K. Watkins
swatkins@io.com
Sun Mar 21 15:00:52 1999
Hello,
I am new to the mailing list (just subscribed); I am having problems
with getting my ethernet card to work under linux. I have an EtherExpress
PRO/100+ PCI Adapter (from Intel) the chip on the card is labled
SD82558B. The webpage at
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html indicated to me
that the eepro100 driver should work for me. I followed the instructions
listed, and saw no compilation problems or anything. The ethernet card
box says it is compatible with the Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 model B PCI
Adapters.
I still can't see my ethernet card... It works fine under 95. I am
eventually going to get linux to use my cable modem (based on Austin, TX's
RoadRunner services), but I have other instructions for that to be done
later.
My machine is a K6 233 running on a gigabyte TX2 motherboard. I have
96MB of ram. I am using RedHat 5.0 with the 2.0.32 kernel. I have a
banshee PCI video card. I have pnp turned off in the BIOS.
Just for your info, my experience level is that of a pretty good
user, but a newbie sys admin.
A couple of strange things (to me) that I saw during this installation
was: 1) I tried to use redhat's kernel configurator, but when I clicked
"restart kerneld" I couldn't see any changes (to /etc/conf.modules). I
had to update conf.modules by hand as described at the above web site. 2)
During boot I saw a message that an unknown PCI device was found (see
dmesg output at end of message). The numbers after it were (121a:3). 95
shows my ethernet card on IRQ3 w/ I/O range = 6600-661F and memory ranges
E4100000-E4100FFF and E4000000-E40FFFFF. I looked in the indicated file
/usr/include/linux/pci.h and found that the number 121a is associated with
3DFx VOODOO cards (maybe I'm having some sort of conflict there), but my
Banshee card is using IRQ10.
Thanks for all of your help. Please email me with any questions I
failed to answer.
dmesg output:
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fb100
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfb5c0
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb5f0
Probing PCI hardware.
Warning : Unknown PCI device (121a:3). Please read include/linux/pci.h
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 466.94 BogoMIPS
Memory: 64108k/66496k available (736k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1268k
data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized
Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Linux version 2.0.32 (root@porky.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Wed
Nov 19 00:46:45 EST 1997
Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.07
Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size
ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f
hda: MICROPOLIS 4525A, 2385MB w/228kB Cache, CHS=605/128/63, DMA
hdb: FX810T4, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdc: WDC AC26400B, 6149MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=13328/15/63, DMA
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
hdc: [EZD] [remap 0->1] [784/255/63] hdc1 hdc2 < hdc5 hdc6 >
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 68508k swap-space (priority -1)
Swansea University Computer Society IPX 0.34 for NET3.035
IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035
VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:1c
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