Re: Intel Ethernet card on Linux woes
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.eepro100.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Nikhil Deo wrote: > I have a system running RH7.2 that has 10/100 Intel® Pro integrated network > card. It should work fine, assuming that we are talking about the usual modern NIC, not an 1995 era ISA NIC with a similar name. > First of all, I hope eepro100/e100 is the right driver for this > card. I forgot where I had seen that info. > > insmod fails with a init_module: No such device Which driver version are you using? You will need something fairly recent to detect one of the new integrated chipset NICs. > I had found out that the IO of the card is 0xd000 and then also tried putting > the line options eepro io=0xd000 after the alias eth0 eepro in the > modules.conf file. I also tried telling explicitely to use IRQ 10. > I also tried an 'autodetect=1' The ISA-style options are not used with PCI devices drivers, and any unrecognized option name will keep a module from loading. > In one of the combinations I also had the following messages in dmesg > eepro_init_module: Probe is very dangerous in ISA cards > eepro_init_module: Please add "autodetect=1" The driver is 'eepro100' not 'eepro'. That might be your problem. -- Donald Becker [email protected] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993