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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

I hit DEL when booting and went into Setup and changed something in 
PNP/PCI section so that IRQs 11 and 12 are now PCI instead of legacy.

insmod 8390 (okay)
insmod 3c59x - Device or resource busy
insmod ne  'Use of PCI-ne2000 driver recommended!'
(and it identified io 0x6500 and irq 12)
insmod ne2k-pci:  No useable cards found, driver NOT installed'

route

eth0 is not on the list.

Is this or is this not a pci card?  Linux tells me first that it is not 
really a pci card, then treats it as if it were, then tells me to load the 
pci module, then says it cannot find a pci ethernet card, if I understand 
the above correctly.  It seems to be rather confused, as am I.  Help!

I see why the rummage sale does not sell cards with BNC connectors, which 
means that they are older and thus probably more prone to these problems.  
They had about 20 to 30 of the newer ones (most of which we donated).

At least all my parallel ports take the same plip module.

On Mon, 10 May 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:

> My two Kingston cards (PCI, 100 Mbit) are working perfectly but I don't 
> want to keep moving them between computers because the gold might wear off 
> the stripes, so I was planning to use my Realtek RTL-8029 network card 
> temporarily in the others to transfer fs.img to three more computers.
> 
> I had looked it up in the online linux howto for ethernet which said 
> though it was a PCI card it had the older chip on it (and was slow as 
> molasses), and to use ne and ne2k-pci modules (which Steven provided).
> 
> So I booted with the BL2 kernel and there was something in dmesg about 
> ne.c but when I tried to use the card ifconfig told me:
> 
> no PCI cards found.  Use io-0xNNN value(s) for ISA cards.
> 
> So this is apparently acting like an ISA card, as predicted.
> 
> I booted again with the net.i bzImage and this time it does not seem to be 
> telling me to use ne.c.
> 
> 3c59x.c:v.99H ...... (URL for info on this driver)
> ne2k-pci.c:vpre-1.00e..... 
> WARNING:  THE PCI BIOS assigned this PCI NE2k card to IRQ 0, which is 
> unlikely to work!.
> You should use the PCI BIOS setup to assign a valid IRQ line.
> ne2k-pci.c  PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-0029' at I/O 0x6500, IRQ 0
> eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0x6500, IRQ 0....
> via-rhine.c.... (what is this?)
> lots of lines about eth1 eth2 etc. not identified in the printer port
> 
> I presume this means that I should add  io=0x6500 to the insmod ne2k-pci 
> line (the base address) but could someone please explain to me what 
> exactly I am supposed to do in BIOS setup (which I think it what I do 
> right after turning on the computer and hitting DEL or F1 to enter Setup)
> so that BIOS will assign IRQ 11 or 12 instead of 0?
> 
> I see why I am advised to use a 'real' PCI not this realtek PCI card but
> the other one I got needs a winbond module which is not on my CD.  Is
> there some other place to get them for SW71 or must I compile it myself?
> 
> It also looks like I need to insmod 8390 (or don't I need this) followed 
> by 3c59x and then ne2k-pci, but not ne itself.  ???
> 
> On Thursday I can go get some other network cards to try if this does not 
> work, but I would like to get this done today if possible so I welcome 
> suggestions.  (Otherwise we will be biking the computers to their final 
> location - we have a ride for them tomorrow).
> 
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