so if insmod works fine it's ok (you can check whether the module is
loaded with 'lsmod')
if not you must specify io and irq : insmod 3c59x io=<your io> irq=<your
irq>
put the line you have typed as command (above) but without 'insmod' into
/etc/modules
and make sure you have in /etc/rcS.d file as : @S<any number (probably
20)>modutils (e.g @S20modutils)
'@' means it is a symlink (to /etc/init.d/modutils ) if you
haven't...reinstall modutils
Hello again Martin,
I have done as you suggested. Once I reboot, I can't find 3c59x neither with
"lsmod|more" or with "modconf"...
the funny thing is that the card/driver shows up at boot time and the is not
there anymore. I attach dmesg.txt in case it may help...
thanks again,
Gianguido Cianci
PS: I am aware that I might have all sorts of "useless" or "mutually
exclusive" modules loading up at boottime: the truth is I am not sure which
ones I *really* need :-)
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dmesg
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Linux version 2.2.19pre17 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Tue Mar
13 22:37:59 EST 2001
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0009f000 @ 00000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 03ffdc00 @ 00100000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0bf00400 @ 040ffc00 (usable)
Detected 298650 kHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 596.37 BogoMIPS
Memory: 256880k/262144k available (1744k kernel code, 424k reserved, 2940k
data, 156k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k)
Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
512K L2 cache (4 way)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K
CPU: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 04
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9b3
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536)
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
loop: registered device at major 7
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x10a0-0x10a7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x10a8-0x10af, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: WDC AC36400L, ATA DISK drive
hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6202B, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: WDC AC36400L, 6149MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=784/255/63
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
NCR53c406a: no available ports found
sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
IBM MCA SCSI: Version 3.2
IBM MCA SCSI: No Microchannel-bus present --> Aborting.
This machine does not have any IBM MCA-bus
or the MCA-Kernel-support is not enabled!
megaraid: v1.11 (Aug 23, 2000)
aec671x_detect:
3w-xxxx: tw_findcards(): No cards found.
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.13)
apm: disabled on user request.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
Adding Swap: 289160k swap-space (priority -1)
NTFS version 000607
3c59x.c 18Feb01 Donald Becker and others
http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0x1040, 00:10:5a:08:64:43, IRQ 10
8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface.
MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786f.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
ISDN subsystem Rev: 1.114.6.7/1.94/1.140.6.3/1.85.6.2/1.21/1.5.6.2 loaded
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2]
parport_probe: failed
parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
Toshiba System Managment Mode driver v1.7 22/6/2000
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic
usb.c: registered new driver serial
usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Empeg
usb.c: registered new driver usblp
usb.c: registered new driver keyboard
usb.c: registered new driver usb_mouse
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