Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] problem with NIC "Compex RL 2000A"

[Martin T. <mar...@gm...>]

Hello,

I don't have a utitity floppy disk supplied with the system/NIC to boot from, but I checked out the IO and IRQ under Win98, and tried to give them Devil-Linux resp. the ne2k-pci as options, but nothing had changed.
Then I tried some random (high) IRQs like 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and after that (undo that) I tried to load the module with autoprobe parameters check. It changed nothing...

As I had no further ideas, I changed the NIC and built in a 3Com 3C905b-TX (PCI) (instead of the Compex RL2000A) and loaded (as I read to be the suitable driver) the 3c59x module.
But: It's just the same!
Module loaded, but not used...

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Listing all loaded modules:

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
ppp_synctty             5544   0  (unused)
ppp_async               6976   0  (unused)
ppp_generic            23176   0  [ppp_synctty ppp_async]
slhc                    4736   0  [ppp_generic]
p80211                 18500   0  (unused)
ipv6                  175956  -1
3c509                  10324   1
3c59x                  27216   0
lvm-mod                60608   0  (autoclean)
md                     58400   0  (autoclean)
libata                 38648   0  (unused)
loop                   48688   0

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:04:65:55:4E
          BROADCAST NOTRAILERS 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:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Base address:0x1400

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I just don't understand that...
If it would be Windows (;-)), I would suppose that the NIC is disabled.
And while I looked in some .config files to search for the cause of the fault, I found something strange (not directly in a file):

modprobe --showconfig:

[...]
alias char-major-200 vxspec
alias char-major-206 osst
alias char-major-216 rfcomm
alias dos msdos
alias dummy0 dummy
alias dummy1 dummy
alias eth0 off
alias iso9660 isofs
alias md-personality-1 linear
alias md-personality-2 raid0
alias md-personality-3 raid1
alias md-personality-4 raid5
alias md-personality-7 multipath
[...]

Why "alias eth0 off"?? Where does this come from? Could that be the fault?
I'm confused... (and not a Linux-expert)
Is there anybody who understands what is going on at my Devil-Linux?

Btw.: Thanks for the URL:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO/individual.html
It helped a bit and is a good summary.

If it can be helpful, I could place my etc.tar.bz2 on a server, if someone is interested in looking through it.

Thanks for any further suggestions.
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