Networking :: Networking is Notworking



Greetings,

I have recently installed DSL 0.7.3 on my HD at hdb7.  All of my peripherals appear to be working except for my network interface card.

I am running a Cyrix P166 CPU (P1-compatible) on a Tyan Tomcat III mobo with 128 MB RAM, Trident 96XX video card, Avance Logic ALS-007 sound card, and 33.6k hardware modem (I am writing this from DSL/Dillo while playing an audio CD).  

My NIC is a Realtek RTL-8019 10base-T ISA card in jumperless mode set to IRQ=10 and I/O=0x340h, which works fine in all versions of Windows which I currently have installed (Win95OSR2, Win2000Pro, WinNT3.51Wks).

If I run netcardconfig from the DSLpanel, all I get is "No supported network cards found".

I added the following to the append line in my /etc/lilo.conf file, then ran lilo and rebooted:

ether=10,0x340,0,0,eth0

but I still have no ethernet.

Running the dmesg command echos the ether portion of lilo.conf's append line, but no further mention of the NIC appears anywhere in the text.

The ifconfig command returns info on only lo (local loopback) and ppp0 (if I've dialed out to the Internet).

Any suggestions?

Oh yes, another question:  Is there a Linux command that displays which IRQs and I/O addresses are being used by which devices?  I'm thinking that the Plug'n'Pray sound card or video card may have possibly hijacked the NIC's IRQ.
If it is truly in a "jumperless mode". that may be a "plug & pray" option in the card.

Can you hard jumper the options ?
Have you disabled plug & pray in your bios?

Do you have a utility on floppy to change/check the settings?

A Realtek 8019 should be easy to manage...
A very common card..

Did you try  "insmod ne io=0x340 irq=10"

Does " lsmod " show anything in it about your card?

And congrats on getting your hda7 DSL install working..
Your about to have some real fun now..  :)
Just when you get it real sweet...  DSL 0.8 will be out  :laugh:

73
ke4nt
Jumperless mode is the correct mode.

Try editing the append line in your lilo to add "noisapnp" and see if it works.

Otherwise, try this:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....=ne2000
Quote (ke4nt1 @ Aug. 21 2004,21:43)
A Realtek 8019 should be easy to manage...
A very common card..

And congrats on getting your hda7 DSL install working..
Your about to have some real fun now..  :)
Just when you get it real sweet...  DSL 0.8 will be out  :laugh:

Thanks on the congrats.  I'm actually having some fun playing with this.  Yeah, just when I get this figgered out, they'll come out with a new version.  :p

I recall that the Realtek 8019 was a pretty popular card available at the local computer shows several years ago when I bought them for $15 each.  It *should* at least be recognized as an NE2000-compatible.

Okay, here's the latest:

The command insmod ne io=0x340 irq=10 returns:

(long_path)/ne.o: unresolved symbol ei_open, ethdev_init, ei_interrupt, NS8390_init, and ei_close (on 5 separate lines).

The lsmod command shows nothing about the network card.

The commands:

sudo su
ifdown -a
modprobe ne  returns:

(long_path)/ne.o: init_module: No such device or address

Adding "noisapnp" to /etc/lilo.conf's "append" line made no difference.

Booting into the PC's BIOS, I changed the PnP setting for IRQ 10 from "PCI/ISA PnP" to "Legacy ISA".  This also made no difference.

The network card can be switched between PnP and Jumperless modes by moving a physical jumper.  In Jumperless mode, you boot a DOS floppy and run a config utility to view or set the irq and i/o locations.  I did this and verified that the settings are correct.

dmesg still shows nothing about the NIC beyond echoing the "ether" statement in lilo.conf's append line.

I did notice on bootup (this doesn't show in dmesg) that immediately after /etc/fstab is set up with the hard drive's partitions, something like:

modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module minix

or something to that effect is displayed.  I don't know what it means, but it doesn't look good.

At any rate, I'm still stumped.  :(
It sounds like you are doing all of the right things.

Change ISA settings.
Disable ISA PnP.
Manually load the driver.

I assume that your card still works after all of this tweaking and MS Windows is happy.

The "unresolved symbol" message troubles me.

Can you try and see if you can load the "ne" module in a different version of Linux like

Tom's Root Boot Floppy
Feather Linux
Knoppix (boot with "knoppix 2" to save memory)

At least you will have a better idea if the card can be run in Linux, as opposed to a problem that may be specific to only the DSL livecd and not other Linuxes  (or is it spelled "Linuces"?).

Good Luck.
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