[tulip] linksys pci 10/100 card

Erik Steffl steffl@bigfoot.com
Tue, 05 Dec 2000 13:41:21 -0800


  I guess you need the latest driver (IIRC it's 0.92), and for that you
need to use scan-pci module, get it from the same place where you've got
the new tulip.c (which should be scyld.com (IIRC))Mark Salisbury wrote:

	erik

Mark Salisbury wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 05 Dec 2000, Hank Barta wrote:
> > To solve this someone would need to know:
> >
> > 1. What error messages. They might not be as useless as you think.
> 
> tulip.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> 
> (i am unsure about the first line as I am not at that computer now, but the
> second line is correct)
> 
> >
> > 2. What Linux distro and version you are running.
> 
> RH 7.0 / kernel 2.2.16-22
> >
> > 3. What compiler messages you got when you tried to compile.
> 
> the commands which failed were:
> 
> kgcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c tulip.c `[ -f /usr/include/linux/modversions.h ] && echo -DMODVERSIONS`
> 
> I inserted -I/usr/src/linux/include and it compiled (just now, here at work)
> 
> I will have to re-do this at home and include module versioning to get it to
> work (hopefully) with stock RH although I am very tempted to just build a new
> kernel w/out module versions
> 
> >
> > On Mandrake 7.0 (Redhat derived) I could compile only by having Kernel
> > sources installed and adding (IIRC) -I/usr/src/include to the command
> > at the end of the source files. Apparently the 'kernel' headers in
> > /usr/include do not necessarily match those in the kernel directory. I
> > recall hearing Very Good Reasons for this, but don't recall the details.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Mark Salisbury wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 09:08:04 -0500
> > > From: Mark Salisbury <mbs@mc.com>
> > > To: tulip@scyld.com
> > > Subject: [tulip] linksys pci 10/100 card
> > >
> > > i appear to have rev 2.0 of this card ( bought two days ago ) which I
> > > guess means a PNIC clone or relable job.
> > >
> > > the driver disk does not include a linux driver, but says to get the
> > > latest tulip driver and compile that.
> > >
> > > the date on the floppy disk is well prior to RH7.0 which is what I am
> > > running (stock, in early setup stages)
> > >
> > > so I check the source of the tulip.c in my src tree and it is several
> > > rev's later than what they say I need.
> > >
> > > I try to do an insmod w/ the stock driver and it fails with typically
> > > useless info (and depmod -a; modprobe too and modules.conf even)
> > >
> > > so I grab the latest tulip.c and try to compile it and it won't compile.
> > > (i think it is an include file thing)
> > >
> > > tips, hints and insults are all welcome,
> > >
> > >     Thanks
> > >
> > >             Mark
> > >
> > >
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> > Hank Barta                            White Oak Software Inc.
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