Subject: Re: Intel Pro 100 > PM8500 w/YDL 2.0
From: Scott (sgshanaf@mtu.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 13:55:42 MDT
Oh, and I should mention it again has the kernel panic when the system
reboots.
Thanks
Scott
On Saturday 30 June 2001 09:38 am, you wrote:
> 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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