Hello again.

Well I finally got X to work (Thanks to Synt4x_3rr0r for this) with my Nvidia driver but since the upgrade from 2.4.31 to 2.6.15, I can't get my Fast Ethernet 10/100 nc100 network card to work now. Nor can I get my Cmedia 8738 to work.


When I do a lsmod, all it shows is my Nvidia module.
Now when I do a lspci, it will list all of my hardware.

I now know from this forum that my network card uses the Decchip tulip chipset? I did select 10/100 when I did the menuconfig under network driver section and after looking at the submenu, I didn't see anything recognizable, so I didn't add anything to the submenu though there was quit a few enabled and I don't recall seeing anything with tulip or I just missed it.

My big question is, am I going to have to recompile again, but this time look for tulip on the network submenu, or is there a way I can get it to work with out redoing my kernel 2.6.15..
I don't mind redoing it as I've gotten this far in 4 trys.

Same question for my soundcard.

Thanks again guys.

Mitch

Under Device Drivers > Network Device Support > Ethernet (10 or 100) > Tulip family device support there are a bunch of selections...

did you try "modprobe tulip" as root - you may have compiled it as a module?

I had the exact problem today with the exact same card while installing gentoo on my server.

mdarby is correct, you need to select tulip family device. Since this was my 4th recompile for the exact same problem (I always google my probs first, hence the recompiles) I selected "Tulip Family Network Device Support" "Early DECchip Tulip..." and "DECchip Tulip..." I compiled them directly in the kernel and voila, eth0 up

Thanks for the replies mdarby, Genesee and Justanothersteve. It's appreciated.

At the time I compiled my Kernel, I didn't realize that tulip was the chip set for my network card, so I didn't select it.
I had already done modprobe tulip which was a no go..

Any other tips on what to select for my cmedia 8738(will I have to download alsa drivers?)during my next menuconfig recompile?
Might as well try to kill to birds with one stone so I can fix my network card and sound card the same time.

By they way, is this Linux/Slackware stuff addicting or is it just me?

Thanks.

Mitch

Not sure on your soundcard, but it seems you're being bitten by the Slackware bug. Welcome aboard.
Once you Slack...

Ok, I recompiled and this time I did select the tulip items and I even saw my sound card and enabled that.
Bootup up after done and still does not work.

Not only the network card and sound card won't work, my what was working video drivers for my riva tnt won't install now either. When trying to reinstall the nvidia driver it says to recompile and disable rivafb support, which I did when I once again recompiled, I still get the same message. Don't know what else I can do as I've done exactly what I was told to do on here, but then again, this is Linux and it would not be fun for stuff to work correct the first 6 tries of recompiling a kernel.

Thanks guys..

Mitch.

What if I redid the Network card and the sound card as modules instead of built into the kernel, do you think it would give me a better chance of turning them on?

By the way, I can still get into Slackware 2.4.31 and evyerthing still works there except my video drivers for the riva tnt2 card.






Thanks

I compiled the tulip drivers into the kernel. Did you unselect any of the other network drivers, specifically the Realtech driver it auto-selected?

As for your sound, did you compile in ALSA support along with the appropriate driver?

I, personally, loathe kernel compilation. It has been pretty much all I have done the past two days.

I've only messed with NVidia drivers, but I know once you recompile you also must reinstall any third party video drivers.

Could you post the output of
and

mman49, according to your sig, your setup is:

PII 550 via chip set with 320 megs ram
16meg riva tnt2/pro 18 gig hard drive.
Linksys eithernet

My server is:
PIII 550/320Mb Ram
32Mb riva tnt2/pro
53ish GB (13Gb & 40Gb drive)
Linksys Fast Ethernet 10/100 NC100


So, how about I send/post my .config. All you would have to do is change the processor arch to PII and tinker with your sound drivers. In theory it should be correctly configured for your video (with framebuffer support) and your ethernet since we have such a similar rig.

I did compile the tulip * into the Kernel. I did not uncheck any other Network device though. Same with the soundcard. I did find and choose cmedia 8738 and I think I enabled ALSA. Actually, I'm not certain that I saw Alsa.

I'm sending lspci, dmesg, ifconfig on the reply to this.

That would be great JustanotherSteve.. Please send the .config I would really appreciate it.
Just tell what and how to do it.

My email address is mman49one@excite.com.

Also, if this helps any, my motherboard is a Tyan S1854 Trinity.

Email sent with the .config file. As per the message body, just cp that into the top-level of your kernel source directory (cp a backup of your .config first) then make menuconfig and change the arch (mine is a PIII yours is a PII), and change the filesystem support if you are not using ext3. Let me/us know if you need any more help.

Here is a
lspci
ifconfig
dmesg

Sorry it's so long.


00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South] (rev 23)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 11)
00:07.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management (rev 30)
00:10.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
00:13.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 15)
root@myhost:~#




root@myhost:~# dmesg
Linux version 2.6.15 (root@myhost) (gcc version 3.3.6) #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 27 17:36:31 UTC 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000013ff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000013ff0000 - 0000000013ff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 0000000013ff3000 - 0000000014000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
319MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 81904
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 77808 pages, LIFO batch:15
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 VIA694 ) @ 0x000f6e10
ACPI: RSDT (v001 VIA694 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x13ff3000
ACPI: FADT (v001 VIA694 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x13ff3040
ACPI: DSDT (v001 VIA694 AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 14000000:ebff0000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux-2.6.15 ro root=301
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (01313000)
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
Detected 551.341 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 319376k/327616k available (2774k kernel code, 7780k reserved, 971k data, 216k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 1104.82 BogoMIPS (lpj=2209648)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0020 (from 0c20)
CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Brought up 1 CPUs
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb290, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050902
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: d0000000-d1ffffff
PREFETCH window: d2000000-d3ffffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
Machine check exception polling timer started.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1138544863.744:1): initialized
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd2000000, mapped to 0xd4880000, using 1536k, total 16384k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x8, linelength=1024, pages=4
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:0393
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Pseudocolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=0:0:0:0
vesafb: Mode is VGA compatible
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 2 throttling states)
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
00:07: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:08: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP(,...)]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: ST320410A, ATA DISK drive
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1502, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2
hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
libata version 1.20 loaded.
usbmon: debugfs is not available
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 10, io base 0x0000e400
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usbcore: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.10rc3 (Mon Nov 07 13:30:21 2005 UTC).
ALSA device list:
No soundcards found.
oprofile: using timer interrupt.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 196608 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 196608 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
TCP reno registered
ip_conntrack version 2.4 (2559 buckets, 20472 max) - 212 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
logips2pp: Detected unknown logitech mouse model 0
input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1
ipt_recent v0.3.1: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>. http://snowman.net/projects/ipt_recent/
arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 216k freed
Adding 2097136k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2097136k
root@myhost:~#



root@myhost:~# ifconfig
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

With your mob and older hw why not use SW10.2 test26s install? Alsaconf will setup the sound card and you can pick correct tulip module during install.
Or use 2.6.10 or 2,6.13 config file for that new kernel?
Check HCL in this forum.