Re: self-made potato driver-1.bin

[Michael Gruner <stockraser@yahoo.de>]

Am Son, 2002-08-25 um 22.46 schrieb pa3gcu:
> You make it impossable for any hints as you dont say what commands you use, 
> execpt, 
> "potato didn't load the module smc-ultra whether I gave
> the io and irq i set the jumper on the card on nor i gave no options to
> load it:"
> 
> You dont even say what options you used./////
Ok, you're right, here it is:
first i used the debian installer which loads the modules for the NICs,
CDRoms... and gave the option io=0x300 
second i switched to the second console and did a "modprobe smc-ultra"
third i switched to the second console and did a modprobe 8390 and a
modprobe smc-ultra
everytimes from a fresh booted potato install...you know the results.
> 
> Now i have a lot of experiance with smc nics, some "early ultra's" have buggy 
> firmware and will give you problems as you seem to be having, those early 
> type's (some) work with the module  "wd" (in most cases).
will give that a try. The thing i don't understand is: trying to install
SuSE and fli4l with that card always works fine by loading their
smc-ultra-module...
> Some cards may look like a smc-ultra but have a 8013 chip, the old wd had 
> 8003's or was called 8003 cant remember, but AFAIK they were 8 bit cards.
on the chip there is "smc-ultra-chip" printed.
> 
> Now if the card is a true smc-ultra then you have 2 jumpers on the card.
> With the card placed with component side up and the coax and RJ45 connectors 
> on the righthand side there are jumpers at top left.
> The first set of jumpers from left to right is numberd W1.
> J1 = soft configurated (under linux not in use)
> J2 = I/O=280 IRQ=3 
> J3 = I/O=300 IRQ=10
I did set the that jumper to J3. the card I have here has the jumper for
the ROM integrated to J1-J5, so you have J1 soft configurated, J2 for
280/3 without ROM J3 for 300/10 without ROM J4 280/3 with ROM and J5
300/10 with ROM.
> 
> I have encounterd many problems with these cards, here are some hints, as far 
> as i can remember, its been a long time since i used them.
> 
> Dont use IRQ 3 as it is normally used by serial ports.
> Use the jumper settings above to avoid memory and I/O address problems.
> Make sure your BIOS is set for ISA/PnP on IRQ 10 otherwise some systems will 
> quite possably assign irq10 to some PCI adaptor during the init process and 
> will produce the error message you mentioned above, 
> "  device or resource busy "
a cat /proc/interrupts told me IRQ 3 and 10 are both unused and cat
/proc/ioports told me that 0x300 must be free as well.
> It really means the IRQ or I/O address is in use rather than the ethernet 
> card is in use.
> 
> 1) Send another mail, i/wee wil try and help.
I'll give that a try ;-)
> 2) Throw the dam things away as they are way outdated and olny 10M cards.
That might not be an alternative to me because as a student there is not
enough money to me and maybe i can learn something by getting that cards
work together with debian.

> http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
off-topic: is that Newzeeland near australia?

micha
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