[aclug-L] Compaq NIC question?

[Sanjay Dhar <sxdhar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I just happened to get my hands on a Compaq Netelligent 10/100
UTP PCI Ethernet adapter. On going through the HOWTO for Ethernet, I found
that it is supported by Linux :-)

However, after I physically installed the card, I loaded the driver
(tlan.o) as a module without success. Since, I haven't messed with the
kernel in a little while, I compiled this driver into the kernel. Still no
success. My ifconfig -a only shows the local loopback. I however have a
few snapshots of some of the key files below. BTW, I'm still running RH
5.2 with the 2.0.35 kernel - shame on me.

Here's /var/adm/messages:

Nov 20 01:34:46 emperor kernel: TLAN driver, v1.0, (C) 1997-8 Caldera,
Inc. 
Nov 20 01:34:46 emperor kernel: TLAN:    IO mapping not available,
ignoring device. 
Nov 20 01:34:46 emperor kernel: TLAN:  Activating PCI bus mastering for
this device. 


Snapshot of cat /proc/pci 

PCI devices found: 
Bus  0, device  19, function  0: 
   VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems 5597/5598 VGA
(rev 104 
). 
     Medium devsel. 
     Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfe800000. 
     Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfedf0000. 
     I/O at 0xfc00. 
Bus  0, device  11, function  0: 
   Network controller: Compaq Netelligent 10/100 (rev 16). 
     Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 255.  Master Capable.
Lat 
ency=64. 
     I/O at 0xfcd0. 
     Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfedee800. 


cat /proc/ioports 

0000-001f : dma1 
0020-003f : pic1 
0040-005f : timer 
0060-006f : keyboard 
0070-007f : rtc 
0080-009f : dma page reg 
00a0-00bf : pic2 
00c0-00df : dma2 
00f0-00ff : npu 
0170-0177 : ide1 
01f0-01f7 : ide0 
0376-0376 : ide1 
03c0-03df : vga+ 
03f0-03f5 : floppy 
03f6-03f6 : ide0 
03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR 
03f8-03ff : serial(auto) 


cat /proc/interrupts 

0:     178360   timer 
1:       2777   keyboard 
2:          0   cascade 
8:          1 + rtc 
12:      68851   PS/2 Mouse 
13:          0   math error 
14:      70264 + ide0 
15:          0 + ide1 


Any help would greatly be appreciated. 

TIA
Sanjay



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