Subject: PCI BIOS not enabling ne2k clone ethernet card
From: Adrian Membrez (penguin127@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jul 10 2001 - 20:14:04 MDT
I posted a message on July 6 outlining a couple of post-install problems
concerning screen resolution/color bit depth and my ethernet card. Since
then, I have done a lot of research on the ethernet question. my card is a
MacAlly card with a RealTek 8029 chip -- a NE2000 clone, as I discovered
from D. Becker's ethernet driver site. I have used modprobe to load the
ne2k-pci module, using the i/o and irq settings I found in the /proc/pci
file. In fact, I have done this many times, and each time the eth0 interface
fails to initialize at boot. The last time I tried this, the dmesg file had
the following text at the very end:
*******
cat uses obsolete /proc/pci interface
ne2k-pci.c: v.1.02 for Linux 2.2, 10/19/2000, D. Becker/P. Gortmaker,
http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html
The PCI BIOS has not enabled this NE2K clone! Updating PCI command
0000->0001.
ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'Realtek RTL-8029 at I/O 0x400, IRQ23.
eth0: Realtek RTL-8029 found at 0x400, IRQ23, 00:00:1C:10:67:C4.\
*******
Could someone help me interpret what this means? If the card needs to be
enabled, how do I do that?
(The last time I checked lsmod, the ne2k-pci module was not loaded. I
suppose this is because the card was not enabled at startup.)
Is there something else I need to do or check?
Thank you.
--Adrian Membrez
penguin127@yahoo.com
ICQ:37069856
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