Nonworking Tulip ethernet driver?

[Jeff Berman]

Thanks, Shawn.

I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for in /var/log/dmesg, but here's
the part pertaining to Tulip:

Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre9 (Nov 6, 2001)
PCI: ENABLING DEVICE 00:11.0 (0004 -> 0007)
tulip0: 21041 Media table, default media ffff (Autosense).
tulip0: 21041 media #0, 10baseT.
tulip0: 21041 media #1, 10base2.
tulip0: 21041 media #2, AUI.
eth0: Digital DC21041 Tulip rev 17 at 0xc495e000, 21041 mode,
00:A0:40:3D:1E:16, IRQ 22.

As far as the insmod goes, I totally don't know what I'm doing, but I typed
"insmod de4x5" to load the generic driver and it gave me this:

Using /lib/modules/2.4.18-0.9a/kernel/drivers/net/de4x5.o
/lib/modules/2.4.18-0.9a/kernel/drivers/net/de4x5.0: init_module:
Input/output error
Hint: insmod erros can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
invalid IO or IRQ parameters

I did find Sean Denney's excellent instructions for getting the tulip driver
to work, but it is currently over my head.  It's at
<http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2002-April/
000249.html>.

Thank you so much!

Jeff


On 4/30/02 9:53 AM, "Shawn Coomey" <scoomey@us1ws157.terraplex.com> wrote:

> Jeff-
> Who needs a video card? Video cards are for wimps! ;)
> 
> But seriously, can you add some output of you insmod attempt, and maybe the
> output of /var/log/dmesg, then maybe we can debug a bit for you.
> 
> Shawn
> 
>> Under YDL 2.2 and the Linux 2.2 kernel, ethernet works great on my system
>> (Performa 6400).  However, under the 2.4 kernel, it doesn't work at all.  A
>> couple other list messages suggested using the generic DEC DE4X5 driver
>> instead of the Tulip driver.
>> 
>> I'm very new to Linux and was unable to get the "INSMOD DE4X5" command to
>> work.  Can someone please point me in the right direction with this?  Also,
>> why would the Tulip driver suddenly break in the 2.4 kernel?