[juneau-lug] Re: xandros install

  • From: "Myron Davis" <myrond@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 00:42:04 -0900 (AKST)

Hi,

insmod by itself does not load the pre-requisites for ethernet, most
likely you already have 8390.o and isa-pnp.o loaded on your Knoppix
system.

Try doing the following before loading the ne driver.

insmod 8390
insmod isa-pnp
(not necessarily in that order)
then insmod ne

This my guess at this point, also is that a old PCI NE2000, or a ISA NE2000?
if I remember right if it doesn't auto-detect you have to do a insmod ne
io=0x340 irq=5 (or whatever your NIC is set too)...

:)

-Myron

> That is sort of what I did.  The driver is there.  Knoppix is using ne.o
> (from lsmod) for my plain jane NE2000 nic & it works fine.  Xandros also
> has a  ne.o but it won't load.  Why?  They are both debian.  I should be
> able to do an "insmod ne", but no, it give me "unresolved symbol".  This
> usually means version mismatch, doesn't it?  I could  try copying &
> replacing the Knoppix ne.o to Xandros.
>
> New data point - it also fails under MandrakeMove.  Huh?
> Thanks for your input.
>
> Myron Davis wrote:
>
>>At first I was fairly impressed with the Xandros hardware detection until
>>of course we tried to install it on the old laptop and it didn't detect
>>the cdrom (doh!).
>>
>>The SMP kernel should be fine, could you run knoppix and do a lsmod and
>>look for the drivers for your NIC?  Then boot into Xandros and run
>>
>>cd /lib/modules
>>find . -name DRIVERNAMEFOUNDINKNOPPIX
>>
>>that should at least tell you if the driver exists, if it does try
>>modprobe DRIVERNAMEFOUNDINKNOPPIX
>>
>>and hope for the best, otherwise it's back to downloading and compiling
>>network card drivers :(
>>
>>-Myron
>>
>>
>>
>>>Myron or anyone,
>>>
>>>Installed Xandros 2.0 - network card not seen.  (same setup works fine
>>>w/Knoppix 3.3, which is also Debian).
>>>Do a "insmod ne" and see 5 lines of "unresolved symbol" errors (ie:
>>>ethdev_init_Rsmp_l8lbald4).
>>>uname tells me: Linux 2.4.22-x1 #1 SMP ...
>>>Did it install a SMP kernel & is that my problem?  cpu is AMD-K6
>>>
>>>Any suggestions? TIA
>>>-Jamie
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