Nonworking Tulip ethernet driver?

[philphil]

My suggestion is:

Go to Donald Becker's site, get the tulip module source, compile it and then
do a insmod.

Phil Wong

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Berman" <jefflist1@gonif.org>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: Nonworking Tulip ethernet driver?


> Hi there, I didn't get a response last time so I'm sending this out again.
> Any help at all would really be appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> 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?
>
>
> 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
>
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