can't run 3com netcard on startup (only manually)

[davecgs]

OK

I have a 3c2000 network card that loads beautifully with insmod 3c2000 but I can't get it to load even though I added the name to /etc/modules.conf


options 3c2000
alias eth0 3c2000


I feel really dumb. I got the driver from 3com and ran
make load and then
make install

What am I missing ?
Red hat 7.3 kernel 2.4.18-3

During bootup it says explicitly that "bringing up eth0"
Somehow it does not load.

Thanks for any help.!

[kode]

I don't recall needing the 'options 3c2000' in modules.conf...

Is there an actual error message when it's trying to startup eth0?

'dmesg | more' might be useful for you to figure that out...

[davecgs]

There is NO error message at all and that is what is strange. I checked the log and no revelations there. According to the log everything is fine.

yet I still have to use ifconfig eth0 up to get it to work at the command line.



Linux version 2.4.18-3 (bhcompile@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #1 Thu Apr 18 07:32:41 EDT 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000020000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 131072
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126976 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda1 ide=nodma
ide_setup: ide=nodmaIDE: Prevented DMA
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1595.493 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 3185.04 BogoMIPS
Memory: 513960k/524288k available (1125k kernel code, 9940k reserved, 802k data, 296k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000, vendor = 2
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Duron(tm) processor stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb3e0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
Unknown bridge resource 1: assuming transparent
Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent
PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/3177] at 00:11.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-0 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
block: 992 slots per queue, batch=248
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 89
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:11.1. Please try using pci=biosirq.
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: Unknown VIA SouthBridge, contact Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hda: WDC WD800JB-00FSA0, ATA DISK drive
hdc: CRD-8320B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide0: probed IRQ 14 failed, using default.
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide1: probed IRQ 15 failed, using default.
hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=155061/255/63
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 122k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 296k freed
Adding Swap: 1534196k swap-space (priority -1)
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 07:48:41 Apr 18 2002
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:10.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:08.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:10.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:09.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd800, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:10.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:11.5
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xdc00, IRQ 5
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
ehci-hcd.c: $Revision: 1.1 $ USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
ehci-hcd.c: block sizes: qh 96 qtd 96 itd 160 sitd 64
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:10.3
hcd.c: ehci-hcd @ 00:10.3, PCI device 1106:3104 (VIA Technologies, Inc.)
hcd.c: irq 3, pci mem e092c000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
ehci-dbg.c: ehci_start hcs_params 0x3206 dbg=0 cc=3 pcc=2 ordered !ppc ports=6
ehci-dbg.c: ehci_start extended capabilities at pci 104
ehci-dbg.c: ehci_start hcc_params 0x6872 caching 7 uframes 256/512/1024
ehci-hcd.c: reset 80002 cmd (park)=0 ithresh=8 period=1024 Reset HALT
ehci-hcd.c: init 10000 cmd (park)=0 ithresh=1 period=1024 HALT
ehci-hcd.c: USB 2.0 support enabled, EHCI rev 1. 0
hcd.c: 00:10.3 root hub device address 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 6 ports detected
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x77 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
3C2000: 3Com Gigabit NIC Driver Version A11
Copyright (C) 2003 3Com Corporation.
Copyright (C) 2003 Marvell.
eth0: 3Com Gigabit NIC (3C2000)
PrefPort:A RlmtMode:Check Link State
eth0: network connection up using port A
speed: 100
autonegotiation: yes
duplex mode: full
flowctrl: symmetric
scatter-gather: enabled

[Flatline]

Is the module in

/lib/modules/<KERNEL_VERSION_HERE>/kernel/drivers/net/

?

It's probably named something like 3c2000.o

[davecgs]

Seems to be working now. Thanks!

Question though on understanding if you have the time.


The /dev holds the device drivers yet we have what appears to be a repeat of that in the /lib/.... directory also hold drivers via modules to launch with the kernel (instead of having to recompile the kernel all the time). What exactly does the /dev directory actually do?


Thanks again for making this work!

[gwalters]

/dev is not drivers but access points to your hardware. i.e /dev/hda being your first harddrive. you can write to it, mount it (mount /dev/hda /) and a slew of other things

[davecgs]

Thanks and clears up my misunderstanding!