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["Anthony Albert" <albert AT polaris.umpi.maine.edu>]

On 15 Feb 2005 at 23:17, Termina wrote:
>Having problems getting an old ISA NIC working
>
>Since none of the modules I got by default worked, I downloaded the
>tulip.o from the slackware 7.1 mirror.
>
>I insmod tulip.o, and get this message:
>
>insmod: init_module: tulip: Device or resource busy
>
>I downloaded a few of the 3c50#.o modules as well, and when I try to
>insmod them, I get the same message. Although some give me:
>
> (insmod 3c503.o)
>insmod: unresoved symbol ei_open
>insmod: unresolved symbol ethdev_init
>insmod: unresoved symbol ei_interrupt
>insmod: unresoved symbol ei_close
>
>Anyone know what I can do?
>
>I have *no* idea the stats of this card. dmesg doesn't seem to have
>anything useful about it either.
>
>Thanks!
>-- 
>-Bill Twomey

First step to take is to try to identify the primary chip used on the 
card.  Pull the card, and look for identifying information.  Usually, 
the largest chip on the card will be the most important one, since 
multiple card manufacturers source from a fewer number of suppliers, 
and the drivers are written with the primary chips in mind.

3c50x modules are for cards with the 3Com 50x chipset.
Tulip modules are for DEC 2104x chipsets (if I recall corectly)
NE2000/NE1000 are for Novell 2000/1000 chipsets, and many cards have 
this built in as a compatibility mode, so it could be worth a try.

Hope this helps,
Anthony Albert
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Systems and Software Support Specialist          Postmaster
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