US Robotics 7900 NIC card

Luke · 03-27-2002, 09:12 AM

I have RH 7.2 on a box with a US Robotics 7900 NIC. I am unable to initialize the card and wonder if there is a Linux driver available for this type of NIC.

Any help in this matter is appreciated!

finegan · 03-27-2002, 10:52 AM

Its almost definately supported. Linux drivers go by chipset, and almost every NIC on the market is a knockoff of one of a few hundred chipsets. I've only found one card ever that wasn't supported, and it actually was, just not in the 2.4.x kernel series anymore.

"lspci"

will list all of the pci devices in the machine. If this is ISA, its going to be harder, but that should give you more info on the NIC. Post that back here.

Cheers,

Finegan

Luke · 03-27-2002, 11:13 AM

Finegan,

Thanks a lot bro. I'll check it out. Need to get the number off the chip. Thanks once again for your help!

Luke.

jjdonn · 06-08-2002, 01:49 AM

I have identified the chipset as Accton Technology EN1216 but still no luck with finding the driver.

Noerr · 06-08-2002, 11:52 AM

go and check kernel docs for network devices it will almost certainly have your chipset mentioned

jjdonn · 06-08-2002, 01:10 PM

The docs/how-to says that the Accton MPX uses ne (ne2000). However, when I

> modpobe ne

I get a

init_module: Device or resource busy

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance, jack

Noerr · 06-08-2002, 04:35 PM

yes your device has been locked by another driver. check out what is you system doing at boot time

jjdonn · 06-08-2002, 06:06 PM

The only line in the boot log (dmesg) that appears related is:

ne.c: No PCI cards found. Use "io=0xNNN" values for ISA cards.

finegan · 06-08-2002, 06:16 PM

There is, or was, a module called the ne2k-pci.o, try

modprobe ne2k-pci

It was the module for the PCI version of the updated ne series card.

Luck,

Finegan

Noerr · 06-08-2002, 06:55 PM

but if device is busy then do lsmod first