3com905c driver compiling woes

Still not working

Script started on Fri Jul 18 13:02:16 2003
debian:/usr/local/src/kernel/3c90x-1.0.0# lsmod
Module Size Used by
3c90x 22580 0 (unused)
debian:/usr/local/src/kernel/3c90x-1.0.0# ifconfig eth0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
debian:/usr/local/src/kernel/3c90x-1.0.0# cat /etc/modules.conf
### This file is automatically generated by update-modules
#
# Please do not edit this file directly. If you want to change or add
# anything please take a look at the files in /etc/modutils and read
# the manpage for update-modules.
#
### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/0keep
# DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!
# This file is not marked as conffile to make sure if you upgrade modutils
# it will be restored in case some modifications have been made.
#
# The keep command is necessary to prevent insmod and friends from ignoring
# the builtin defaults of a path-statement is encountered. Until all other
# packages use the new `add path'-statement this keep-statement is essential
# to keep your system working
keep

### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/0keep

### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/aliases
# Aliases to tell insmod/modprobe which modules to use

# Uncomment the network protocols you don't want loaded:
# alias net-pf-1 off # Unix
# alias net-pf-2 off # IPv4
# alias net-pf-3 off # Amateur Radio AX.25
# alias net-pf-4 off # IPX
# alias net-pf-5 off # DDP / appletalk
# alias net-pf-6 off # Amateur Radio NET/ROM
# alias net-pf-9 off # X.25
# alias net-pf-10 off # IPv6
# alias net-pf-11 off # ROSE / Amateur Radio X.25 PLP
# alias net-pf-19 off # Acorn Econet

alias char-major-10-130 softdog
alias char-major-10-175 agpgart
alias char-major-81 bttv
alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic
alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async
alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty
alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
alias eth0 3c90x

# Crypto modules (see http://www.kerneli.org/)
alias loop-xfer-gen-0 loop_gen
alias loop-xfer-3 loop_fish2
alias loop-xfer-gen-10 loop_gen
alias cipher-2 des
alias cipher-3 fish2
alias cipher-4 blowfish
alias cipher-6 idea
alias cipher-7 serp6f
alias cipher-8 mars6
alias cipher-11 rc62
alias cipher-15 dfc2
alias cipher-16 rijndael
alias cipher-17 rc5


### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/aliases

### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/paths
# This file contains a list of paths that modprobe should scan,
# beside the once that are compiled into the modutils tools
# themselves.

# This used to be quite a list, but upstream merged some Debian patches
# so we currently don't need to do anything here

### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/paths

### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/setserial
#
# This is what I wanted to do, but logger is in /usr/bin, which isn't loaded
# when the module is first loaded into the kernel at boot time!
#
#post-install serial /etc/init.d/setserial start | logger -p daemon.info -t
"setserial-module reload"
#pre-remove serial /etc/init.d/setserial stop | logger -p daemon.info -t
"setserial-module uload"
post-install serial /etc/init.d/setserial modload > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
pre-remove serial /etc/init.d/setserial modsave > /dev/null 2> /dev/null

### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/setserial

### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/arch/i386
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias char-major-10-144 nvram
alias binfmt-0064 binfmt_aout
alias char-major-10-135 rtc

### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/arch/i386

debian:/usr/local/src/kernel/3c90x-1.0.0# exit

Script done on Fri Jul 18 13:02:56 2003

"Steve Wolfe" <un@codon.com> wrote in message
news:9DVRa.52$mo4.29@fe01.atl2.webusenet.com...
> > debian:/usr/local/src/kernel/3c90x-1.0.0# insmod 3c90x.o
> > debian:/usr/local/src/kernel/3c90x-1.0.0# ifconfig eth0 up
> > SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
>
> Make sure that you have, indeed, loaded the module succesfully, with
> "lsmod". If it is, then try putting this in your /etc/conf.modules (or
> modules.conf):
>
> Alias eth0 3c90x
>
> THEN try the "ifconfig eth0 up" again.
>
> steve
>
>
>

In article <RTWRa.22935$BM.6704864@newssrv26.news.prodigy.com >,
tom wrote:
> Still not working

And you're still looking at what is probably the wrong solution to the
problem. You say 3Com says not to use the kernel driver for the "C". Are
you sure of this? Did you try it? (Do you even know HOW to try it?) From
what I've seen of the thread it appears that you unquestioningly assumed
that 3Com was correct.

3c509C? let me check:
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink] (rev 74)
Is that your card? I have one. Right now it's running on the 2.4.17
kernel's included driver. I've used it in other machines under 2.4.5 and
..18-.20. I never bothered to look around 3com's site.

Frankly I rarely consider the Linux advice of hardware manufacturers.
Most of them have no involvement whatsoever in the development of Linux
drivers, so they can hardly be considered an authoritative resource on
their proper use.

Consult your Debian documentation on how to set up a network interface.
Follow those instructions carefully. Connect. Enjoy.

Later on it wouldn't hurt you to learn a bit about how the Linux kernel
and modutils do their work.
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In article <slrnbhggqp.vkg.rob0@linuxbox.stpaultel.com>, I wrote:
> 3c509C? let me check:

s/509/905/

Anyway I should have mentioned that the name of the kernel driver is
3c59x. "modprobe 3c59x". Although if you're using a 2.2.x kernel (good
catch, Timo!) it is possible that it's not supported. Is there any
reason why you can't upgrade to 2.4.21? If so you could also try the
latest 2.2.25 kernel.
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In article <gzZRa.22994$BM.6737552@newssrv26.news.prodigy.com >,
tom wrote:
> I recompiled kernel 2.2.25 using 3c590 and
> I ran ifconfig eth0 up and dhcpcd and lo and
> behold I have a connection.

I'm not surprised. Anyway, the ifconfig step is unnecessary. That's what
you would use to assign yourself a static IP. Is that 3c590 or 3c59x?

> How do I get a connection to the internet automatically
> using Debian now when I reboot?

I've not used Debian, but I would bet that their documentation would
cover this. Where did you look -- what did you try?
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tom wrote:

> How do I get a connection to the internet automatically
> using Debian now when I reboot?

Humm. I use dhcpcd to obtain a dynamic IP from my ISP, so I think that
copypasting this config should work. Anyway, the following is the relevant
portion of /etc/network/interfaces :

# The first network card
auto eth0
iface eth0 dhcp

If you installed dhcpcd from the Debian package (as you probably did), then
the startup links in /etc/rc?.d/ should be correct.

HTH,

-Timo

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