damn ne2000 nics...they work fine under 2.2, but NOOOOOOO~~OO they wont work under 2.4 - wtf?

[Barnaby W. Füi]

i compiled another 2.4.17 kernel for this machine, finally getting all the correct options for iptables, but anyways, now my 2 ne2000 ISA nics dont work...heres what i typed up:

when i modprobe 0x240, 250, 260, 270, 280 or 290 nothing happens, it says no
device found at that location. when i modprobe ne io=0x300, it finds
THREE ne cards, IIRC one at 270, one at 300, and one at 2a0. they are
eth0, eth1 and eth2...but i only have two nic's...then when i try to do
ANYTHING with them, like use apt, use a browser, anything that would be
using the nics to communicate with the net, i get this:

eth0: trigger_send() called with the transmitter busy
Hw. address read/write mismap 0
Hw. address read/write mismap 1
Hw. address read/write mismap 2
Hw. address read/write mismap 3
Hw. address read/write mismap 4
Hw. address read/write mismap 5

and i cant connect....

if i lsmod i get this:

Module Size Used by Not tainted
ne 6400 2
8390 5920 0 [ne]
smbfs 30880 0 (unused)

then if i try to modprobe -r ne or 8390 (i dont get it, is 8390 another
instance of ne or what?), i get a "resource busy" error.

this sux0rz please help0r

 

[Nothinman]

8390 is being used by ne, that's why you can't remove it until you remove ne.

Do you really get 5 of those mismap lines?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

<< 8390 is being used by ne, that's why you can't remove it until you remove ne.

Do you really get 5 of those mismap lines? >>


i cant remove 8390 OR ne, in any order. and yeah, i get 6 lines, 0-5. :|

 

[Nothinman]

You need to take down the interfaces before you can remove their driver.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

<< You need to take down the interfaces before you can remove their driver. >>


hm guess i forgot about that...any ideas why they're not workin?

 

[Nothinman]

The only machine I ever used a ne compat nic in was 2.2, and I replaced it ASAP, sorry.