Tulip driver, farallon card

[Ken Schweigert]

Lynne,

I just worked through this same thing last week.  Here's what I learned:

The kernel (2.2.19 in my case) had de4x5 compiled in by default and assigned
that to the Farallon card.  I suspect your "device busy" error is the same
symptom.  

I had to recompile the kernel with these changes:
Network device support -> Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) -> 
 <*> Generic DECchip & DIGITAL EtherWORKS PCI/EISA
to:
 <M> Generic DECchip & DIGITAL EtherWORKS PCI/EISA
and:
 <M> DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support
to:
 <*> DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support

Recompiled and installed the kernel and everything worked like magic.

Hope this helps.

-- 
-Ken Schweigert, Aspiring Network Administrator
Byte Productions, LLC
http://www.byte-productions.com


On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:22:52PM -0600, Lynne Cooney wrote:
> Link light is on, but no others. I had this problem a few years ago
> installing linuxppc on the same umax. I recall that I had to recompile a
> kernel with tulip support. But I see that the driver exists in the modules,
> so I'm trying to insmod it. The card is at 0x0800 with irq 23. When I try to
> insmod tulip, I get "Device or resource busy."
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction? Obviously, network access is
> super important. I was going to take my own oft-repeated advice: "Just get a
> 3Com card." But they are $100, and this is an old machine, and I HAD the
> card working in linuxppc. But it wasn't easy, and of course, my notes are
> gone.
> 
> Lynne
> 
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