Am Son, 2002-08-25 um 22.46 schrieb pa3gcu: > You make it impossable for any hints as you dont say what commands you use, > execpt, > "potato didn't load the module smc-ultra whether I gave > the io and irq i set the jumper on the card on nor i gave no options to > load it:" > > You dont even say what options you used.///// Ok, you're right, here it is: first i used the debian installer which loads the modules for the NICs, CDRoms... and gave the option io=0x300 second i switched to the second console and did a "modprobe smc-ultra" third i switched to the second console and did a modprobe 8390 and a modprobe smc-ultra everytimes from a fresh booted potato install...you know the results. > > Now i have a lot of experiance with smc nics, some "early ultra's" have buggy > firmware and will give you problems as you seem to be having, those early > type's (some) work with the module "wd" (in most cases). will give that a try. The thing i don't understand is: trying to install SuSE and fli4l with that card always works fine by loading their smc-ultra-module... > Some cards may look like a smc-ultra but have a 8013 chip, the old wd had > 8003's or was called 8003 cant remember, but AFAIK they were 8 bit cards. on the chip there is "smc-ultra-chip" printed. > > Now if the card is a true smc-ultra then you have 2 jumpers on the card. > With the card placed with component side up and the coax and RJ45 connectors > on the righthand side there are jumpers at top left. > The first set of jumpers from left to right is numberd W1. > J1 = soft configurated (under linux not in use) > J2 = I/O=280 IRQ=3 > J3 = I/O=300 IRQ=10 I did set the that jumper to J3. the card I have here has the jumper for the ROM integrated to J1-J5, so you have J1 soft configurated, J2 for 280/3 without ROM J3 for 300/10 without ROM J4 280/3 with ROM and J5 300/10 with ROM. > > I have encounterd many problems with these cards, here are some hints, as far > as i can remember, its been a long time since i used them. > > Dont use IRQ 3 as it is normally used by serial ports. > Use the jumper settings above to avoid memory and I/O address problems. > Make sure your BIOS is set for ISA/PnP on IRQ 10 otherwise some systems will > quite possably assign irq10 to some PCI adaptor during the init process and > will produce the error message you mentioned above, > " device or resource busy " a cat /proc/interrupts told me IRQ 3 and 10 are both unused and cat /proc/ioports told me that 0x300 must be free as well. > It really means the IRQ or I/O address is in use rather than the ethernet > card is in use. > > 1) Send another mail, i/wee wil try and help. I'll give that a try ;-) > 2) Throw the dam things away as they are way outdated and olny 10M cards. That might not be an alternative to me because as a student there is not enough money to me and maybe i can learn something by getting that cards work together with debian.
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