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Hello to all,

i downloaded version 3.4 of BasicLinux (cat /proc/version says: Linux version 
2.2.26) a couple of days ago. So far, it runs quite well but i cannot connect 
to my local ethernet. Searching the archived mails with google i didn't find 
any indication of someone having had the same problem before, so i post it 
here.

After loading the 8390.o and smc-ultra.o modules, which i downloaded from a 
slackware 4 site, with insmod, i get the following message, which looks quite 
well to my eyes:

smc-ultra.c: Presently autoprobing (not recommended) for a single card.
smc-ultra.c:v2.02 2/3/98 Donald Becker (becker AT cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
eth0: SMC Ultra at 0x300, 00 00 C0 DB 4F D4, IRQ 10 memory 0xcc000-0xcffff.

Next i configure the interface eth0 with the following result:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:C0:DB:4F:D4  
          inet addr:192.168.1.18  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x310 Memory:cc000-d0000 

This again looks ok to me. However, after issuing the 'ifconfig 192.168.1.18 
up' command, i get the confusing message 'Trying to free free IRQ10'. And 
when displaying /proc/interrupts the interrupt of the network card (IRQ 10) 
is not listed. The system does not respond to ping-requests nor is it 
possible to ping other machines. Even worse, when trying to do so, the system 
issues the message 'eth0: xmit on stopped card' and keeps on issuing this 
message until power off.

Doing the same with TRINUX (another tiny Linux distribution, as you might 
know) on the same machine works fine. In fact, the output messages of insmod 
and ifconfig even look identical to the above shown ones (with the exception 
that the 'Trying to free ...' message doesn't appear). This should definitely 
rule out any cabling or adressing problems and it also suggests that the 
smc-ultra.o is the correct driver for the network card.

By the way, the apparent contradiction between the I/O and memory adresses 
shown by insmod and ifconfig, appear identically at TRINUX, so this doesn't 
seem to be harmfull.

Trying to run BasicLinux on another machine, with a different network card 
and hence a different network driver module leads to similar results: it 
doesn't work either. 

So, what might be going wrong here ???



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