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Re: Network Card.
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Igal Rubinstein wrote:
> Hi !
> I bought a Network Card. It is called EtherFast LAN Adapter, and in the
> bottom of the box is written Micronet. It must be NE2000 Compatible.
> However when I installed Linux (Redhat 4.0) It DID NOT recognized it at
> all. It is plug & play card, it has IRQ 11, and i/o 6100h. When I entered
> these addresses, it did not accepted it. Then, 'Mi rov yaush' i decided to
> play with it and finally, it recognized it as 3c503. (I used Autoprobe
> option). Ok so I have "installed" it. But is there is a chance to make it
> work as NE2000 ? Does anyone of you, Linux users, has this card ?
> Oh, and since I have installed this card I receive strange lines when I
> boot my computer. These lines also appear suddenly. Sometimes, I don't
> know why I even receive Segmentation Fault. (Since I installed this card)
> Any ideas why ?
>
> Here is an example of my boot info:
>
> (got it by dmesg)
> Aiee, killing interrupt handler
> general protection: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<00139385>]
> EFLAGS: 00010087
> eax: 6f000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 0282e95c edx: 00000000
> esi: 0282e9e8 edi: 00000000 ebp: ffffffff esp: 00926a84
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
> Process amd (pid: 219, process nr: 22, stackpage=00926000)
> Stack: 0282e95c ffffff80 00000080 001f615c 00000000 00000246 00139227 0282e95c
> 00000080 0013923d 00000080 ffffff80 00000080 001f615c 00116237 00444c40
> 00000397 0092581c 00926afc 0011002e 00444c40 00926be4 0092581c 00000000
> Call Trace: [<0282e95c>] [<00139227>] [<0282e95c>] [<0013923d>] [<00116237>] [<0011002e>] [<0016baa9>]
> [<0016bab5>] [<0014a615>] [<0014a629>] [<0014a666>] [<0014e955>] [<0016c07b>] [<0016b535>] [<0016b47c>]
> [<0016b2d4>] [<00169721>] [<0016c76a>] [<0016c1c2>] [<0016c61c>] [<00126593>] [<001269c5>] [<00126ea1>]
> [<00120e25>] [<00115cca>] [<0010a6e5>]
> Code: 89 10 53 89 4c 24 14 e8 1b f3 ff ff ff 74 24 18 9d 55 8b 4c
> Aiee, killing interrupt handler
> general protection: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<00139385>]
> EFLAGS: 00010087
> eax: 6f000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 0282e95c edx: 00000000
> esi: 0282e9e8 edi: 00000000 ebp: ffffffff esp: 00a0df6c
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
> Process procmail (pid: 243, process nr: 22, stackpage=00a0d000)
> Stack: 0282e95c ffffff80 00000080 001f615c bffffdac 00000246 00139227 0282e95c
> 00000080 0013923d 00000080 ffffff80 00000080 001f615c 00116237 008f9c0c
> 00000000 bffffdac 00000010 0010a66b 0000000b bffffd58 0000000b 00000000
> Call Trace: [<0282e95c>] [<00139227>] [<0282e95c>] [<0013923d>] [<00116237>] [<0010a66b>]
> Code: 89 10 53 89 4c 24 14 e8 1b f3 ff ff ff 74 24 18 9d 55 8b 4c
> Aiee, killing interrupt handler
> general protection: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<00139385>]
> EFLAGS: 00010083
> eax: 6f000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 0282e95c edx: 00000000
> esi: 0282e9e8 edi: 00000000 ebp: ffffffff esp: 00b2cf6c
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
> Process nmbd (pid: 280, process nr: 25, stackpage=00b2c000)
> Stack: 0282e95c ffffff80 00000080 001f615c bffff2dc 00000246 00139227 0282e95c
> 00000080 0013923d 00000080 ffffff80 00000080 001f615c 00116237 00a95c0c
> 00000000 bffff2dc 00000010 0010a66b 0000000b bffff29c 0000000b 00000000
> Call Trace: [<0282e95c>] [<00139227>] [<0282e95c>] [<0013923d>] [<00116237>] [<0010a66b>]
> Code: 89 10 53 89 4c 24 14 e8 1b f3 ff ff ff 74 24 18 9d 55 8b 4c
> Aiee, killing interrupt handler
> general protection: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<00139385>]
> EFLAGS: 00010083
> eax: 6f000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 0282e95c edx: 00000000
> esi: 0282e9e8 edi: 00000000 ebp: ffffffff esp: 00c27f6c
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
> Process procmail (pid: 326, process nr: 38, stackpage=00c27000)
> Stack: 0282e95c ffffff80 00000080 001f615c bffffdac 00000246 00139227 0282e95c
> 00000080 0013923d 00000080 ffffff80 00000080 001f615c 00116237 00c1f414
> 00000000 bffffdac 00000010 0010a66b 0000000b bffffd58 0000000b 00000000
> Call Trace: [<0282e95c>] [<00139227>] [<0282e95c>] [<0013923d>] [<00116237>] [<0010a66b>]
> Code: 89 10 53 89 4c 24 14 e8 1b f3 ff ff ff 74 24 18 9d 55 8b 4c
> Aiee, killing interrupt handler
> CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
> PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation)
> PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc.
> PPP line discipline registered.
> registered device ppp0
> wait_queue is bad (eip = 0014de56)
> q = 0070f22c
> *q = 00926be4
> wait_queue is bad (eip = 0014de73)
> q = 0070f22c
> *q = 00926be4
> hdb: media changed
> VFS: Disk change detected on device 03:40
> Max size:331309 Log zone size:2048
> First datazone:28 Root inode number 57344
> ISO9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
>
> My best regards, Igal.
>
>
Stop. Go back to the beginning. Boot with a DOS system diskette and use
the diskette you got with the network card to set up the card. Make sure
it is not in PNP (Plug and Play) mode. The setup diskette should allow you
to set the IRQ and IO addresses using a menu. Use the first selections on
the menus unless you know that they conflict with other cards. You were
probably correct in assuming that the card is NE2000 compatible. I have
never heard of 3c clones, although theoretically there could be.
Remove as many other cards from your computer as possible. In particular,
remove your sound card if you have one. Then reboot and watch the boot
to make sure that the network card is being recognized correctly (You dont
see it by default in /var/log/messages, although you could probably set up
/etc/syslog.conf so that you would).
The "Aiee" messages might be a RAM timing problem unrelated to the card.
Is this the first Linux installation on this machine? What Linux are you
using? Did the machine work with a different ethernet card?
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- From: Igal Rubinstein <wh5520@junior10.technion.ac.il>