Re: sitecom ethernet does not function

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, edward prive wrote:

> Hello, could somebody help me with an install of my ethernet-card.
> I have some problems installing my Sitecom ethernet-card under Linux. It 
> works fine under Windows (it is sending this mail okay ;-} ), so it 
> can't be the card itself.
> 
> card:
> Sitecom PCI Fast 10/100 Ethernetcard Adapter LN-020
> A tulip-driver should be used for this, it was already installed on the 
> computer in:
> /lib/modules/2.4.4-4GB/kernel/drivers/tulip.o

What driver version?

> I did /sbin/depmod -a and altered the conf.modules (alias eth0 tulip ; 
> options tulip etc.) as mentioned in the installation guide.

What installation guide?

> insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.4-4GB/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/tulip.o: invalid 
> parameter parm_debug

Is there a module option in /etc/conf.modules or /etc/modules.conf?

Unrecognized module options will prevent the driver from loading.

> Okay, maybe this file is too old (?) .I tried to make the tulip.c again 
> but this failed because it included "/linux" h-files which is not 
> allowed. I don't know how to overcome this problem thus left it at this.

Again, what instructions are you using?

> I did make tulip-diag and run the program and the following output was 
> generated. I don't know how to interpret this but maybe somebody can:
> root@linux:/home/edward/tulip/diag > tulip-diag -f
> tulip-diag.c:v2.06 1/8/2001 Donald Becker ([email protected])
...
>  Interrupt sources are pending!  CSR5 is ffffffff.
...
>   Comet MAC address registers ffffffff ffffffff
>   Comet multicast filter ffffffffffffffff.

This is a very old version.
Newer versions clearly report when the device isn't enabled.

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