Thank you for your responses, I finally have it working. It appears the 2.2.14 incorrectly passes the ioaddr when the ISA NE2000 driver is included in the kernel compile. Changing it to a loadable module fixes the problem. Why? - I don't know. Thanks Tim On Thursday, June 01, 2000 7:19 PM, Marco Presi [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Multitrode Engineering wrote: > > Hello, I had simailar problem upgrading from Cartman to Zoot(i.e. passing > from 22.12 to 2.2.14) > I have your same card NE2000. > I resolved in this way: > I wrote first /etc/conf.modules, with the right parametrs, but things went > wrong. So I modified parameters from Linuxconf but.. nothing. > So I used the command /etc/rc.d/init.d/network reload and all now goes Ok. > Don't ask me why!! Maybe it's a little Red-Hat bug.. > > Bye bye > > > Hello everybody, > > > > I am having problems on an embedded 486 development board that has an > > NE2000 network interface. Running 2.2.12 kernel straight from the Cartman > > install works fine. isapnp correctly assigns the port address to 0x360 and > > IRQ 11. The NE2000 driver uses ne.c and in turn 8390.c. It appears that > > ifconfig reads /etc/conf.modules to get the ioaddr and irq settings for > > bringing up the eth0 interface. > > > > The problem is that on the same machine with the same config 2.2.14 fails. > > It incorrectly passes 0x340 to ne.c or doesn't pass it at all and ne.c > > probes and gets the wrong address (not sure). /proc/ioports confirms that > > the wrong ioaddr is grabbed by NE2000 but the IRQ in /proc/interrupts is > > fine. Obviously with the wrong address it fails, 8390 reporting "Hw. > > address read/write mismap". Running isapnp manually confirms that the card > > is in the right place. > > > > I have checked that ne.c and 8390.c are the same for both 2.2.12 and > > 2.2.14. > > > > Has anybody had the same or similar problems with 2.2.14 - can anybody shed > > any light? Is this related to changes for NFS /root capabilities in the > > kernel? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Tim Bourke > > > > > > -- > Ciao Ciao > > Marco > > ---------------------------- > Marco Presi > Via dei Mandriali, 2 > 00063 Campagnano di Roma > 0039-6-54802231 > 0039-6-54444904 > 03494010919 -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
