FC3 test 1 and NE 2000

Roland Leurs roland.leurs at home.nl
Wed Aug 18 18:06:55 UTC 2004


Hi everybody?

Did I find a bug in FC3 test 1 or did I something wrong? This is my story:

I downloaded the DVD iso image to a webserver and I tried to do a 
network install of FC3 test1 on a PII at 350MHz, 387 MB ram and plenty of 
diskspace. After I selected the source (either FTP or HTTP) the install 
program asked for a network adapter. I selected the NE 1000/2000 and 
specified the parameters io=0x340 irq=4 which are correct. But the 
install program complains there's no such device. Strange, because when 
I went back the NE1000/2000 option was disappeared.

Anyway, I decided to do a harddisk install after I copied the iso image 
to my harddisk (so the NE2000 works!). After installation, FC3 had not 
installed my NE2000. I started the Network configuration tool, again I 
selected "NE1000 NE2000 and compatible" and specified the correct 
parameters. And FC3 refused to load the ne.ko file. Here is what showed 
up in /var/log/messages:

Aug 18 19:13:41 localhost kernel: 88 3f 03 05 00 40 ed 9c d9 f2 9c ae b4 
b0 84 03 e4 11 02 be c4 00 a0 a6 ed 4f 55 87 06 fc ec 33 b9 97 68 d4 3c 
70 cd 02 f9 0c
e0 00 a0 cc 33 35 82 f2 27 ce 16 2a 39 29 29 23 37 b8 92 32 9e 5b f3
Aug 18 19:13:41 localhost kernel: be c4 75 4b b2 d0 dd b8 bc 17 89 93 5d 
d0 8e 96 bf 88 b1 aa
Aug 18 19:13:41 localhost kernel: 88 3f 03 05 00 40 ed 9c e2 f2 9c ae b4 
b0 84 03 e4 11 02 6c 62 00 9c 0e e7 15 e7 25 75 04 2a bf 0a 4e 6a 31 c7 
22 a2 c8 22 40
d6 00 9d 16 de dc a4 8a c3 16 35 19 14 54 0a 7d a2 c4 e8 05 72 cb 69
Aug 18 19:13:41 localhost kernel: 6c 62 a1 38 b7 b1 6b aa 4f 14 28 4c f2 
24 69 ec f8 5f e4 88
Aug 18 19:13:41 localhost kernel: ne: Unknown parameter `" irq'
Aug 18 19:13:41 localhost kernel: ne.c: You must supply "io=0xNNN" 
value(s) for
ISA cards.
Aug 18 19:14:10 localhost kernel: 88 3f 03 05 00 40 ed 9c e2 f2 9c ae b4 
b0 84 03 e4 11 02 6c 62 00 9c 0e e7 15 e7 25 75 04 2a bf 0a 4e 6a 31 c7 
22 a2 c8 22 40
d6 00 9d 16 de dc a4 8a c3 16 35 19 14 54 0a 7d a2 c4 e8 05 72 cb 69
Aug 18 19:14:10 localhost kernel: 6c 62 a1 38 b7 b1 6b aa 4f 14 28 4c f2 
24 69 ec f8 5f e4 88
Aug 18 19:14:10 localhost kernel: ne: Unknown parameter `" io'
Aug 18 19:14:10 localhost kernel: ne.c: You must supply "io=0xNNN" 
value(s) for
ISA cards.

After that (I left the network configuration tool open) I did insmod 
ne.ko io=0x340 irq=4 and the module loaded without warnings:

Aug 18 19:19:07 localhost kernel: 88 3f 03 05 00 40 ed 9c e2 f2 9c ae b4 
b0 84 03 e4 11 02 6c 62 00 9c 0e e7 15 e7 25 75 04 2a bf 0a 4e 6a 31 c7 
22 a2 c8 22 40
d6 00 9d 16 de dc a4 8a c3 16 35 19 14 54 0a 7d a2 c4 e8 05 72 cb 69
Aug 18 19:19:07 localhost kernel: 6c 62 a1 38 b7 b1 6b aa 4f 14 28 4c f2 
24 69 ec f8 5f e4 88
Aug 18 19:19:07 localhost kernel: ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker 
(becker at scyld.com)
Aug 18 19:19:07 localhost kernel: Last modified Nov 1, 2000 by Paul 
Gortmaker
Aug 18 19:19:07 localhost kernel: NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x340: 52 54 
40 25 2f 22
Aug 18 19:19:07 localhost kernel: eth%%d: NE2000 found at 0x340, using 
IRQ 4.
Aug 18 19:19:07 localhost hal.hotplug[3849]: waiting for net info at 
/class/net/eth0
Aug 18 19:19:07 localhost hal.hotplug[3849]: Dont know how to wait for 
net at /class/net/eth0; sleeping 1000 ms

I went back to the network configuration tool and configured the eth0 
interface for DHCP. I rebooted the computer and everything work fine.

Does somebody know what's wrong?

Kind regards,
Roland Leurs





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