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josimitsu
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 Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 12:38 am Post subject: Something strange about my networking |
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I did gentoo install with a NE2000 card but with knowledge that i'll replace it with 3com card (3c900) i built my kernel with ne2000 modul (exactly it was realtek so plus 8139 modul) and 3c59x modul for 3com card. Few days after gentoo instalation (with working networking) I replaced old card with 3com card. I just commented out lines for old card and add 3c59x line in my modules.autoload. After that restarted computer with replaced card, but networking was not running. i tried to ping other computer on our network but nothings happend. I ran ifconfig eth0 everything looks fine, but in statistics there was only outgoing packets (from ping) but no incomings. After that i started playing with it, but what i found is that i have to do "./net.eth0 stop; rmmod 3c59x; insmod 3c59x; ./net.eth0 start" and networking is RUNNING !
Stoping eth0 service, unloading module, loading module, starting eth0 service looks to me very strange.
I dont understand that. Does anyone has an idea about it ? |
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delta407
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| Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 2:34 am Post subject: |
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Please post the output of ifconfig and lsmod before you stop, unload, reload, and start and then afterwards. A command similar to the following:
| Code: | | # ifconfig > log; lsmod >> log; /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop; rmmod 3c59x; insmod 3c59x; /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start; echo Restarted... >> log; ifconfig >> log; lsmod >> log |
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josimitsu
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| Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 5:43 am Post subject: i got it |
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so i should set up option to modul to use 10base2 interface. looks to me like a bug when for the first time loading it was on 10baseT and after reloading it started to use the right one. for the next time i should be more patient to read doc. thank you for willing to help  |
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delta407
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| Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 6:35 am Post subject: |
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| Could you just run that command and post the contents of 'log'? It would give a whole lot more information to work with. |
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josimitsu
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| Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 6:54 am Post subject: |
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here it is:
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before:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:04:E8:EE:90
inet addr:192.168.100.2 Bcast:192.168.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1492 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:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe800
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 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)
Module Size Used by Not tainted
via82cxxx_audio 18208 0 (unused)
ac97_codec 9984 0 [via82cxxx_audio]
3c59x 25384 1
nls_iso8859-2 3392 2 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 4384 2 (autoclean)
vfat 10844 2 (autoclean)
fat 32888 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:04:E8:EE:90
inet addr:192.168.100.2 Bcast:192.168.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:3124 (3.0 Kb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe800
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 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)
Module Size Used by Not tainted
3c59x 25384 1
via82cxxx_audio 18208 0 (unused)
ac97_codec 9984 0 [via82cxxx_audio]
nls_iso8859-2 3392 2 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 4384 2 (autoclean)
vfat 10844 2 (autoclean)
fat 32888 0 (autoclean) [vfat] |
for me it's possible to see only few received bits (after), when it was running and catching traffic network. And maybe most important think. The card is 3c900 EtherLink XL Combo and i'm using old coax (10base2) cables. please give me a feedback if it helps you. |
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klieber
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| Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 1:47 pm Post subject: Re: Something strange about my networking |
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| josimitsu wrote: | | Does anyone has an idea about it ? |
Look at your /etc/modules.conf file as well as /etc/modules.d/aliases.
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hpkevertje1
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| Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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Hi, I'm looking at the exact same problem. 3com Etherexpress XL on bnc, qnd no communication at all after a restart. Reloading the module works.
You mentioned forcing the card to use BNC. Could you tell me how to do that (or where I can find documentation).
Many thanks,
Hans |
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josimitsu
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| Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2002 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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docs are under your/kernel/sources/path/Documentation/networking/ and it was vortex.txt
you could set modules options at booting time in modules.autoload, mine looks like "3c59x options=3" |
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