Intel Pro 100 > PM8500 w/YDL 2.0

Subject: Intel Pro 100 > PM8500 w/YDL 2.0
From: Scott Shanafelt (sgshanaf@chartermi.net)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 22:38:15 MDT

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Hi all,

I'm relatively new to this stuff, and I've got a question for you guys:

I'm trying to get an intel pro 100 ethernet card to work in my Mac 8500 running a fresh install of YellowDog Linux 2.0.

I put the card in, boot into YD, i start X and run netcfg. I add the device as eth1 (in addition to eth0, the built in ethernet hardware on the mac, which is working properly btw). Then i go into /etc/modules.conf and add: alias eth1 eepro100

I've found the eepro100 module in the modules library for the kernel, so I figure it should work. So i restart the box and as linux is shutting down eth1 i get an error from the eepro100 driver (something to the effect) :

device not started by pci bios, updating bios command 0004 -> 0005

and it is then followed by:

Kernel panic
System Scan
Restarting in 180 sec
blah blah blah.

so any ideas guys? Is it even possible to run this card on this machine in linux? I sure hope so.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Scott Shanafelt

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