ethernet card failed to initialize at boot

[Maxei]

During booting, I see this message:
"Bringing up eth0: Failed".

Every time I am forced to start a new conection using Mandrake (10.1 comm) Control Center.

I have installed the driver, rhinefet.ko (and rhinefet.o just in case) for this ethernet card (VT6105 Rhine III 10/100). I followed the instructions as follows:

1) save the rhinefet.tgz to a directory (/tmp)
2) then, cd /tmp , then tar xvzf rhinefet.tgz ; a bunch o files are created.
3)Then I type : make install ; some files are created, including rhinefet.ko and rhinefet.o
4) I check that these two files are added to :/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdk/kernel/drivers/net
5) I check that the line "alias eth0 rhinefet" exists in /etc/modules.conf
6) I check that the line "alias eth0 rhinefet" exists in /etc/aliases
7) From the /tmp directory, I issue the command # insmod rhinefet.ko ; I dont get any message. (Is that o.k ?)
If I do # modprobe rhinefet ; no message is displayed (is that o.k. ?)
9) I rebbot with the command reboot.....

....and here I am with this problem, the card cannot be initialized at boot. What is wrong?

After boot and login in, I do #ifconfig eth0
I get the message:
eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

Please help me to troubleshoot the problem. Thanks

EDIT: By the way, yes, with Mandrake Control Center I can make a new ADSL connection through this card. Strange, isn't it?

Maxei

[Fallen Angel]

Try

ifconfig eth0 up

that should bring up your card.

[Maxei]

Hi Angel. If I do #ifconfig eth0 up, there is an error message. This is because (IMHO) the ethernet card is not yet recognized as such. I have checked if the rhinefet module has been loaded with the command modinfo rhinefet. I obtain a listing of this driver, including aliases, and there are no depends.

I still dont understand what does the message "bringing up interface eth0" during boot means. Is there some configuration that should be set in the BIOS?

If I issue the command dmesg | more, I get a long listing, but i dont see any line containing eth0

But it seems to me that a PCI in the IRQ 11 is detected and seems to share this with something else. Please see the shortened list below:

BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000037ff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000037ff0000 - 0000000037ff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 0000000037ff3000 - 0000000038000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
895MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 229360
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 225264 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.2 present.
ACPI disabled because your bios is from 2000 and too old
You can enable it with acpi=force
Built 1 zonelists
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 32768 bytes)
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Capability LSM initialized
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd ... not found!
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb480, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PnPBIOS: Disabled
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Disabling VIA memory write queue (PCI ID 0305, rev 02): [55] 89 & 1f -> 09
PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 0000:00:07.0
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd4000000, mapped to 0xf8800000, size 1875k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=3
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:02e5
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1110876559.299:0): initialized
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Initializing Cryptographic API
Applying VIA southbridge workaround.
PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:0b.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:07.5
ttyS4 at I/O 0xe000 (irq = 9) is a 16550A
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci0000:00:07.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 2 devices found
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:07.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0c.0
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 11, io base 0000c400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:07.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0c.0
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: irq 11, io base 0000c800
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-6111 Tue Jul 27 07:55:38
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:0d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:0d.1
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:00:0d.0, irq: 10, latency: 32, mmio: 0xd8001000
bttv0: detected: Hauppauge WinTV [card=10], PCI subsystem ID is 0070:13eb
bttv0: using: Hauppauge (bt87 [card=10,autodetected]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffdb [init]
bttv0: Hauppauge/Voodoo msp34xx: reset line init [5]
bttv0: Hauppauge eeprom: model=44811, tuner=Philips FM1236 (2), radio=yes
bttv0: using tuner=2
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
tvaudio: known chips: tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874h/a,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,
pic16c54 (PV951),ta8874z
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus bt878 #0 [sw]
tuner: type set to 2 (Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and compatibles)) by bt878 #0 [sw]
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bttv0: registered device radio0
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected VIA Twister-K/KT133x/KM133 chipset
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:0a.0
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.6
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.3
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.3
Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c0323b60(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,EPP]
parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode

[billybeag]

Same problem here ( with the eth0 pppoa connection)
alcatel speedtouch modem.
I found a way to avoid the problem though.
Just run Linux 24/7

[Maxei]

Hi billybeag,

Yours is not a solution. The problem stays.

Have you any idea of how to change the configuration so the eth0 card uses the driver I want?

I have checked the file /etc/modules.conf and I confirm it has the line alias eth0 rhinefet.
But eth0 seems not to exist, or the card is labelled as something else and uses a generic driver.

How to initialize the ethernet card? That is what I need to know. In MdK Control Center, the ethernet card is identified correctly but the module it uses is wrong (I think): via-rhine.

by the way after making a new connection in Control Center, I can do adsl-stop or adsl-start to switch off and on this connection. These settings are lost when PC is booted.

Maxei DeVraie



Maxei DeVraie[/b]

[swemic]

How to initialize the ethernet card? That is what I need to know. In MdK Control Center, the ethernet card is identified correctly but the module it uses is wrong (I think): via-rhine.

Is this a on board (motherboard) Ethernet NIC?
In that case, have you double checked that the adapter is enabled in bios.

[Maxei]

Hi swemic,

It is a PCI ethernet card that I installed just last week. My question is: Do I have to set something in the BIOS even if its a PCI card?

Thanks
Maxei DeVraie

[swemic]

No you should not need to.
However, I have not seen any of those typical questions that regulary askes here, could you do a couple of commands and paste the result here

ifconfig
ifconfig -a
lspci

That would do some helping in the trouble shooting

[Maxei]

I am doing this while connected:

If I type #ifconfig I get:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:A7:20:40:BC
inet6 addr: fe80::210:a7ff:fe20:40bc/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:14006 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:15449 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:1 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6339466 (6.0 Mb) TX bytes:2606391 (2.4 Mb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2223 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2223 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:152244 (148.6 Kb) TX bytes:152244 (148.6 Kb)

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:65.94.19.207 P-t-P:64.230.254.251 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:2944 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3276 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:984057 (960.9 Kb) TX bytes:437282 (427.0 Kb)


if I type #ifconfig -a I get:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:A7:20:40:BC
inet6 addr: fe80::210:a7ff:fe20:40bc/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:14099 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:15539 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:1 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6414793 (6.1 Mb) TX bytes:2614842 (2.4 Mb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2223 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2223 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:152244 (148.6 Kb) TX bytes:152244 (148.6 Kb)

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:65.94.19.207 P-t-P:64.230.254.251 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1

RX packets:3033 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3362 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:1057186 (1.0 Mb) TX bytes:443721 (433.3 Kb)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

If I type lspci then I get:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 16)
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 16)
00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
00:0b.0 Serial controller: 5610 56K FaxModem 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev 01)
00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105 [Rhine-III] (rev 86)
00:0d.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
00:0d.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)

Of course, after boot, and not connected: If I do ifconfig, then there is no output for eth0, only something for lo appears.

Maxei DeVraie

[swemic]

Ok, this is just a $.05 guess though, but I think you have managed to configure your ethernet adapter dependent on you ppp0 adapter, and when you do a re-boot, I'm quite sure you will see your eth0 if you issue ifconfig -a.
So I would say that you error message that you get on boot is just because the ppp0 interface is not up yet!