Subject: Ethernet Card
From: Derek (derek@digitalgear.com)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 12:47:01 MDT
I am having a problem configuring one of my ethernet cards. I have two
cards on my beige g3 desktop. One is the built in 10MBps card and I have a
100baseT card that I installed. The built in works fine but I want to
switch all network activity over to the 100bT card and not even worry right
now about using the 10bT card. I have added a couple lines in the
conf.modules file to point the kernel to the driver for the card when it
boots but when I do a modprobe eth1 it fails consistently.
The card I am using is a Farallon FastEtherTX-10/100. I am honestly not
sure which driver I should be using so I have been trying all the drivers
located in the /lib/modules/2.2.15-2.9.0/net directory (i.e lance.o,
pcnet32.o). The lance.o causes a kernel panic while all the others just
fail the modprobe.
Anyone know which driver I should be using? Where I can find it if I it
doesn't come with the base install of YDL?
Also, the system does recognize the card. When I boot linux I get a message
somewhat like this:
eth1: DC21143 at 0x0400 ... hardware address: ... and requires IRQ23 ... at
PCI BIOS.
I found something in the Ethernet HOWTO about turning off the PnP (?) bios.
This seemed to be only for Windows though, so if I have to turn it off how
can I do that?
Thanks!
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