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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

The dialing problem may not be related to the ethernet card.  With the two 
cards switched, it dialed on the first try, had problems next two times, 
then dialed and connected again okay.  This is the computer where I set 
S32=34 and S15=128 to disable X2 and V42bis and use just V90.

But there is a problem in loading the module, which was compiled by 
someone who then posted it (along with rtl8139 and tulip) for kernel 
2.2.16.  
Using winbond-840.o
insmod:  unresolved symbol pci_drv_unregister
insmod:  unresolved symbol pci_drv_register

Is this simply a badly compiled module?  I will try to find another one 
instead.


On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:

> I have two pci ethernet cards, both RJ45, both Winbond 840 (for which I 
> found a linux 2.2.16 module by searching the web since SW71 did not 
> include that module).  They have identical chips except for one chip with 
> a slightly different number.  I plugged them into two non-identical 
> computers, one a DFI PI (Intel cpu) and one a Gateway PII (AMD cpu).
> The DFI booted fine, the Gateway told me:
> Resource conflict:  PCI Network Controller
> Bus:00  Device:0f Function:00
> 
> I checked and IRQ 5 10 11 and 12 are open.  Usually the pci cards put 
> themselves on IRQ 9 10 11 or 12.
> 
> What sort of conflict is/was this?
> 
> I played around with resource configuration (auto PCI IRQs, reserved 
> legacy IRQs) and only made things worse so put that back to defaults.
> I hit ESC to resume despite the error (after reserving IRQ3 for the ISA 
> modem in Com2) and was unable to dial with linux:  write: warning: 
> input/output error,  modem hangup - twice.
> 
> I was going to return the card to where I got it from (free) but decided 
> first to see if it worked in the DFI so I switched the two cards and now 
> both computers booted and I dialed in linux on the Gateway.  (I have not 
> yet tried using the network cards).  So it seems to be some sort of 
> incompatibility between one of the two nearly identical cards, and 
> something in the Gateway CMOS or hardware.
> 
> The two computers in question worked just fine with two other PCI network 
> cards but I was replacing them because another list member is set up with 
> BNC cable and these are a rare beast - RJ45/BNC pci cards that 
> automatically detect which type of connector you are using.  They seem to 
> run at the same speed no matter what type of cable is used.
> 
> My partner succeeded in surgery on a cut non-crossover cable and it is now 
> crossover, at least it works at 10MBit.  He also made an RJ45 extension 
> plug (plug into both ends) into a crossover adapter by rewiring it. This 
> has saved us $1.16 plus tax.  
> 
> Can you use BNC cables to hook together 3 or more computers without a hub?  
> We have two ISA BNC cards and, I am told, lots of BNC cables.
> 
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