thanx Pontus, that was a start. After 'modprobe smc-ultra.o' gave me a 'no SMC Ultra card found' error (and 'init-module: Device or resource busy'), I broke open the box, took a long look at the board and the chip, saw it is a 9332, went to the SMC page and found that the driver is tulip.c So then I tried 'modprobe tulip.o' and got the 'init-module' error (is this what net-modules.txt is referring to when it says of tulip.c 'init-time memory allocation makes problems'?)
How do I find out what is going on with 'init-module'? (Don't know if this will help, but when I do an lsmod, I get: slip, shaper, ppp, slhc, eql, dummy, serial, comm, bpck, aten, ip_aliases, autofs, paride, and cdrom -- is dummy tying up the device? -- and if so, how do I remove the module? modprobe -r dummy.o ?) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pontus Lidman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Agner-Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 9:28 AM Subject: Re: newbie problems with eth0 > > On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Agner-Nichols wrote: > > > Then, with the net-modules.txt documentation, tried: > > # insmod -mpv /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/smc-ultra.o io=0 irq=0 > > Same errors, then using the settings on the board, did > > # insmod -mpv /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/smc-ultra.o io=0x300 irq=10 > > and again got the same errors. Looks like the options really aren't being examined. > > > > Do I need to recompile my kernel for ethernet support? Is there something I > > can do to get the insmod to work? > > My guess would be that the smc-ultra.o module needs some other module > loaded before it. Try using the modprobe command instead of insmod, as > this should take care of it automatically. The io and irq options are not > necessary if it is a PCI card. > > Regards, > > Pontus > > -- > Pontus Lidman, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Software Engineer > No matter how cynical you get, it's impossible to keep up. > Scene: www.dc-s.com | MUD: tyme.envy.com 6969 | irc: irc.quakenet.eu.org > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
