Re: initialization problem under 2.4.20

Thanks for looking into that.  In checking around your web site I see 
that you explain that the 8139too driver is a less than optimal 
implemenation of a driver for this card/chip set.  I followed the other 
instructions on your site and built pci-scan.o and rtl8139.o.  They 
work great!  I have them installed in the appropriate /lib/modules/... 
directory, but the system doesn't recognize them as the appropriate 
driver set for the card on boot.  I can insmod them by hand and they 
work fine.  I know this is a little OT, but what is the correct way to 
get things working automatically on boot?  Do I have some configuration 
bit somewhere that is set to look for the 8139too driver?

Thanks again for your time and help.

David



----- Original Message -----
From: Donald Becker <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, March 20, 2003 3:32 pm
Subject: Re: [realtek] initialization problem under 2.4.20

> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, d wrote:
> 
> > Here is the info from (in order) rtl-diag, dmesg, lsmod, and 
> lspci.   
> > Like I said, the version that came with RedHat7.2 works fine, so 
> I 
> > don't think it can be a hardware problem.  Thanks.
> ...
> > dmesg
> > ************************
> > 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
> > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 01:04.0
> > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.1
> > rtl8139_init_board: PIO region size == 0x100
> > rtl8139_init_board: MMIO region size == 0x100
> > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 015c3005
> >  printing eip:
> > c0116f46
> 
> Nope, not a hardware problem.
> Nor is it a problem with IRQ or I/O mapping.
> It appears that the device driver crashed.
> 
> ...
> > Process modprobe (pid: 432, stackpage=ded93000)
> 
> And it crashed in the initialization...
> 
> This appears to be a bug in the 8139too driver...
> 
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