[tulip] PCI bus fatal errors with Linksys LNE100tx

[Donald Becker]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Mario Simoni wrote:

> > > I am new to Linux but have read a lot on the tulip driver. I have
> > > downloaded and successfully installed the .rpm file, but I have to force
> > > the driver to install using
> > >
> > > insmod pci-scan
> > > insmod tulip
> >
> > Does 'modprobe tulip' work?
> > If so, you should configure your driver and interface using the tools
> > provided in your distribution.
> > If not, please report it.
> 
> 'modprobe tulip' does not work even if I do 'modprobe pci-scan' first. I have
> run 'depmod -a' and the modules.dep file DOES reflect the dependency of tulip.o
> on pci-scan.o. So I don't understand why modprobe doesn't work. That's why I
> was using 'insmod'.

You have an invalid option in /etc/conf.modules  (/etc/modules.conf).

> > > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:20:78:1E:53:F4
> > >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> > >           RX packets:144 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > >           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

> > This looks fine, although you have not assigned an IP address.
> 
> I have to use dhcp with our LAN. I have compiled and installed the latest
> version of dhcp client deamon for Linux 'dhcpcd-1.3.19-pl1'. So with dhcp
> running I was told not to assign an IP address.

Hmmm, but you haven't transmitted any packets.  Are you certain that DHCP is
running? 

> > ... are you trying to force the I/O address?  If so, that would explain the
> > driver not loading correct and the IFMAP errors.
> >
> 
> Actually I tried to specify the irq and the io_addr parameters given in the
> /proc/pci file using:
> 
> ifconfig eth0 irq 11 io_addr 0xfc00
> 
> but I get the IFMAP errors like I did using 'ifup eth0':
> 
> SIOCSIFMAP: Operation not supported
> SIOCSIFMAP: Operation not supported

You cannot change the I/O address and IRQ with PCI cards.
(Where does the documentation suggest that you can?)

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