[ale] Compiling ne module for LinkSys Ether16 card

[Scott.Nolde at nelesautomation.com]

I've been trying to slim down the original Red Hat 2.2.12-20 kenel (from 6.1)
and I've somehow cut off support for my LinkSys Ether16 card.  I've selected
NE2000 support to be compiled in the kernel and as a module in another compile,
but I get the following messages:

dmesg:
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker at cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x280: unable to get IRQ 11 (irqval=-16).
ne.c: No NE*000 card found at i/o = 0x280
eth0: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 816e0000.
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker at cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x280: unable to get IRQ 11 (irqval=-16).
ne.c: No NE*000 card found at i/o = 0x280
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker at cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x280: unable to get IRQ 11 (irqval=-16).
ne.c: No NE*000 card found at i/o = 0x280

[root at smnolde /root]# more /proc/interrupts
           CPU0
  0:      60829          XT-PIC  timer
  1:          2          XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  4:         24          XT-PIC  serial
  8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
  9:          0          XT-PIC  es1371
 10:        179          XT-PIC  eth0
 11:          0          XT-PIC  wdt501p
 13:          1          XT-PIC  fpu
 14:      42842          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:          9          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0

insmod ne
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ei_open
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ethdev_init
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ei_interrupt
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol NS8390_init
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ei_close

modprobe ne
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/net/ne.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

I can reboot and my PCI Linksys FastEther (PCI, tulip) will work.  I can also
use the default kernel and boot just fine with everything recognized.

Does anyone have an idea why the card isn't being recognized?  Does it look like
 an IRQ conflict?  With what device?  I guess I slimmed the kernel down too
much.  My compiling command is this:
make dep clean modules modules_install bzdisk

After compiling, is  a depmod -a necessary?

Thanks,
Scott