Problem with eth0 and scsi

blarson · n00b Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 22

I desperatly need some help here... project due soon...

I just installed gentoo and everything is working great... but I don't have scsi support.. no sda in /dev. no problem, I just recompiled the kernel and added the low-level driver support for my scsi card (NCR 53C825, I used the NCR 53C7XX, 8XX drivers). Well that works great, and now i can see sda in /dev, but eth0 won't load! arg! it is an on-board ethernet card, uses thunder-lan drivers. I just disabled the scsi drivers and recompiled, and ethernet works again. The error message happens during boot, says can't load eth0, device is busy or something like that.

This computer was running redhat fine a few days ago, but I really want it to run gentoo. If anyone has any ideas/suggustions, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks!

-Brad Larson

HogRider · Apprentice Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 160

I have invariably had difficulties with ethernet & scsi devices when on of them is on-board. Check the IRQ & Mem addressing for each (boot for scsi, check settings, boot for eth, check settings).

I've found several boards where the PCI bus attempts to share IRQ's & addressing between the on-board device & a PCI slot. It basically makes to slot unusable. (Tyan comes to mind).
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cole · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 20

Did you have eth0 working before you recompiled? If so, did you clean out the old modules?
rm -rfv /lib/modules/*
then make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install
and copy bzImage to /boot
I've done the same before and had eth0 not load untill i redid the modules.
Hope that helps.
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