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milkman4
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 Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 1:40 pm Post subject: Patriot Book PC Network Problems |
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Has anyone managed to get their network card working in a patriot book pc under linux? I'm just installing my second patriot and I cannot manage to get the network up. lspci successfully detects the card:
| lspci -v wrote: | 0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. 21x4x DEC-Tulip compatible 10/100 Ethernet (rev 20)
Subsystem: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc.: Unknown device 8212
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at ec00 [size=128]
Memory at e1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Expansion ROM at e0000000 [disabled] [size=256K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 1 |
And I have loaded both the tulip and dmfe modules, but neither of them are used by anything. I do not get a light on my network switch.
At the moment the two machines are having to share a usb belkin network adapter which is working fine, but not ideal. Any help is most apreciated.
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lotw
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 4:41 pm Post subject: Re: Patriot Book PC Network Problems |
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| milkman4 wrote: | Has anyone managed to get their network card working in a patriot book pc under linux? I'm just installing my second patriot and I cannot manage to get the network up. lspci successfully detects the card:
| lspci -v wrote: | 0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. 21x4x DEC-Tulip compatible 10/100 Ethernet (rev 20)
Subsystem: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc.: Unknown device 8212
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at ec00 [size=128]
Memory at e1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Expansion ROM at e0000000 [disabled] [size=256K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 1 |
And I have loaded both the tulip and dmfe modules, but neither of them are used by anything. I do not get a light on my network switch.
At the moment the two machines are having to share a usb belkin network adapter which is working fine, but not ideal. Any help is most apreciated. |
Is their network card a Wireless one? If so did you enable the wirenetwork in the kernel when you compiled it? Also it is a good idea to make the NIC a module, then you could just do a modprobe module_name and it would load the module and that device would work. Then you can edit the /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and add that module name in there. |
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milkman4
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| Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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lotw, thanks for your respose..
The network card is wired.
I stated in my firsrt post that "I have loaded both the tulip and dmfe modules." The card should be happy with the tulip module though some people on the forums have suggested using the dmfe module. Under normal circumstances I would just compile them into the kernel and it would work without complaining but neither approach is working at the moment.
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| Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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| milkman4 wrote: | lotw, thanks for your respose..
The network card is wired.
I stated in my firsrt post that "I have loaded both the tulip and dmfe modules." The card should be happy with the tulip module though some people on the forums have suggested using the dmfe module. Under normal circumstances I would just compile them into the kernel and it would work without complaining but neither approach is working at the moment. |
But does the network card work fine when you boot from the Gentoo Live CD? Is so, do a lsmod and see what modules are loading and make sure you are getting the right ones. I have had problems with compiling some nic interfaces into the kernel, so I did a module way, my laptop is a good example of that. I tried at first having it compiled in and it would never work, so then I tried as module, bam, that fixed the problem and that is how I run it now. |
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milkman4
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I have tried using a Knoppix 3.8 Live CD and the network card does not work on there, though the dmfe module is loaded (but not used) on there. I do not have a Gentoo Live CD to hand.
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I've found a driver that might work for my patriot but it appears to be for a previous kernel version. I was wandering if anyone could help me update the source file to work with a 2.6 kernel. Or should I just revert to the 2.4 kernel?
I've put the sources that I found at linux-milk.co.uk: [dir|tar.bz2]
Cheers in advance
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