Re: can't ifconfig after loading new 3c59x module
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel |
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On Fri, 9 May 2003, James S. Johnson wrote: > I'm trying to install a new 3c59x driver on a Slackware 9.0 machine to use > with a 802.1Q vlan interface. Before trying to install it, I compiled a > 2.4.20 kernel with vlan capability, with the kernel's top level Makefile > EXTRAVERSION=vlan. That kernel, with its original 3c59x driver, can access > the network without any problems. However, when I build and install a new > 3c59x driver, ifconfig can't start up a new interface. > > Here's how the driver is built: .. > Here's what happens at boot with the new 3c59x module: > Configuring eth1: > ifconfig eth1 192.10.30.250 broadcast 192.10.30.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth1 This means that the 3c59x driver either was not loaded did not find the NIC You can read the kernel messages (usually /var/log/messages) to see which was the case. > Installing the modules from the command line with "insmod pci-scan > msg_level=4" and "insmod 3c59x debug=7" and then running ifconfig gives the > same error messages, except for the modprobe lines. What were the kernel messages from this? -- Donald Becker [email protected] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 914 Bay Ridge Road, Suite 220 Scyld Beowulf cluster system Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 _______________________________________________ vortex mailing list [email protected] http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex