Re: [expert] Strange behavior of a tulip clone NIC
- Original Message - From: Michael Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 9:02 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Strange behavior of a tulip clone NIC If I understand correctly, you have a Netgear card that uses the tulip.o driver and it's having trouble (if this is not true, then feel free to ignore the rest of the message). I don't have the machine in front of me right now, but if I remember correctly, the tulip.o driver would not load unless I loaded pci-scan.o first. insmod pci-scan insmod tulip was what I did. Yes, this is what I've read about on http://www.scyld.com But as you say, there is no pci-scan module included with Mdk, and I've seen my card working properly without it. Anyway, it should be a good idea to include it with the next Mandrake. I think I may have some kind of problem with my motherboard's Via chipset support, which could explain bad detection of my cards. I'll post a solution here, if I can find one. Regards Francois Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Strange behavior of a tulip clone NIC
- Original Message - From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 1:49 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Strange behavior of a tulip clone NIC This is a response to the system doesn't boot any more part: If you downloaded ALL the updates available, you will have updated the kernel which is more or less certain to screw your system up. For future reference, don't use update for the kernel. Download it and use: rpm -ivh to install it alongside your existing kernel. I don't know why mandrake insist on putting the kernel in the same bin as all the other security updates, thereby inviting people to trash their systems, but they keep on doing it. Brian Hello Thank you very much for this tip. You are right: this is the way I screwed my system up. At least, I've learned something ;-) I think there was an update for the glibc, too. Could such an upgrade be a problem too ? By the way: I have a geforce2 card, which I used with the kernel module from Nvidia. Upgrading the kernel with rpm -ivh should have kept this clean, or it could bring me other problems ? Regards François Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Strange behavior of a tulip clone NIC
If I understand correctly, you have a Netgear card that uses the tulip.o driver and it's having trouble (if this is not true, then feel free to ignore the rest of the message). I don't have the machine in front of me right now, but if I remember correctly, the tulip.o driver would not load unless I loaded pci-scan.o first. insmod pci-scan insmod tulip was what I did. Additionally, I think it worked best to put a line in my /etc/modules.conf like: alias eth0 tulip If anyone from Mandrake is listening: I tried to use this card (the Netgear using tulip.o driver) for a MDK SNF firewall. The boot image had the tulip driver but not the pci-scan driver so the install would not autodetect the card. I don't know enough yet to configure the card post-install to work with the web interface provided so I finally pulled the Netgear card and replaced it with a 3Com 3c59x, reinstalled and it worked like a charm. Admittedly, I am not an expert on this area (linux network drivers), but it seems that the pci-scan should be included in the boot image. Perhaps this was specific to my config though. I have had great success with Mandrake 8.x. I am not yet a Linux expert, but I am working on it. Your excellent distribution allows me to focus on the parts that I am interested in rather than things that I am not. I recently installed and configured the OpenLDAP server and got it to respond using your packages and a tutorial I found on the net. Keep up the good work. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002.01.23 09:11:45 - Original Message - From: Jim Dewar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 12:06 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Strange behavior of a tulip clone NIC the only thing that comes to mind right away is IRQ conflict. something bizarre with IRQ sharing perhaps? dunno. do a cat /proc/interrupts though, i guess that may not reveal much now since the situation has been resolved. glad that you got it working. Hello and thanks for your answer Something terrible has happened ;-) I used mdk-update to get the latest mdk rpm for gpg. By the way, I downloaded all updates available... and now my system doesn't boot any more. I decided then to try debian again, as I have backups of my personnal datas. This IS off-topic (this is a mandrake list !), I know, but: I'm now facing the same problems with my NIC: insmod ok, ifconfig ok, but no traffic. Dmesg shows repeting lines like switching [...] to half-duplex (around one line every 2 seconds). /proc/interrupts shows no conflict. I'm willing to try the sound card thing, but: insmod awe-wave ok, but dmesg says no awe found (I have an isa awe32) there is no sndconfig on my system I will be eternally grateful to anybody who will help me ! TIA, and regards from Paris François Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Strange behavior of a tulip clone NIC
This is a response to the system doesn't boot any more part: If you downloaded ALL the updates available, you will have updated the kernel which is more or less certain to screw your system up. For future reference, don't use update for the kernel. Download it and use: rpm -ivh to install it alongside your existing kernel. I don't know why mandrake insist on putting the kernel in the same bin as all the other security updates, thereby inviting people to trash their systems, but they keep on doing it. Brian On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 02:11, Molotov wrote: - Original Message - From: Jim Dewar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 12:06 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Strange behavior of a tulip clone NIC the only thing that comes to mind right away is IRQ conflict. something bizarre with IRQ sharing perhaps? dunno. do a cat /proc/interrupts though, i guess that may not reveal much now since the situation has been resolved. glad that you got it working. Hello and thanks for your answer Something terrible has happened ;-) I used mdk-update to get the latest mdk rpm for gpg. By the way, I downloaded all updates available... and now my system doesn't boot any more. I decided then to try debian again, as I have backups of my personnal datas. This IS off-topic (this is a mandrake list !), I know, but: I'm now facing the same problems with my NIC: insmod ok, ifconfig ok, but no traffic. Dmesg shows repeting lines like switching [...] to half-duplex (around one line every 2 seconds). /proc/interrupts shows no conflict. I'm willing to try the sound card thing, but: insmod awe-wave ok, but dmesg says no awe found (I have an isa awe32) there is no sndconfig on my system I will be eternally grateful to anybody who will help me ! TIA, and regards from Paris François Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
