On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:13:09PM -0800, Dave Scott wrote: | I just installed debian potato with kernel 2.2.18pre21 | | I'm trying to get a pair of SMC 1244TX (rtl8139) Ethernet adapters | working, but not having much luck. | | I ran insmod rtl8139 which installed but says (unused), so I figured I | need to set parameters for the cards. | | I ran the setup for the cards in dos and they report the mac address | followed by IOBASE: E000 H, IRQ 10, and IOBASE: D800 H, IRQ 11 | | All the documentation I have read tells me the IO address need to be | something like 0x300 or 0x000 or something like that. Am I supposed to | convert the address or something?
The 0x is just a convention to indicate hexadecimal. The 'E' in the IO base you gave is (surely) a hexadecimal digit. I know that 0x300 and 0x320 are valid values for ISA buses, I don't know what common numbers are for PCI buses (nor can I quickly find any for my cards). For PCI buses, Plug-n-Play actually works and you shouldn't have to worry about it. | I'm a little lost, or maybe I'm not installing the module correctly? You should be able to simply 'modprobe rtl8139', then 'ifup eth0' and use your connection. You can look for your card in the output of 'lspci'. When you load the module you should see some report regarding probing the card (may be in syslog), and /proc/interrupts should have an entry for it. HTH, -D -- Micros~1 : For when quality, reliability and security just aren't that important!
