[ale] PCI devices

[Armsby John-G16665]

Winmodems are boat anchors for Linux.  You need a real modem such as a U.S. robotics courier or equivalent. I originally had problems upgrading to RH  6.1 from 5.0.  I originally had to purchase the 4front technologies drivers for the sound card.  After uprevving, the sound did not work, until I started fooling with the MIXER.  Suddenly it all worked.....
 
John
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Shade [mailto:mshade at threekay.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 2:24 PM
To: Matt Shade; ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] PCI devices


Here's a little more info:
- I CAN ping my own ip address, but any other address just times out
 
- it appears that the BIOS is assigning IRQ 0 to the card, and I can't find anyway to change that:
      "ne2k-pci.c:vpre-1.00e 5/27/99 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html <http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html> 
       WARNING: The PCI BIOS assigned this PCI NE2k card to IRQ 0, which is unlikely to work!.
       You should use the PCI BIOS setup to assign a valid IRQ line.
      ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0x1020, IRQ 0.
      eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0x1020, IRQ 0, 00:40:05:5D:DC:60."
 
- more dmesg snips that may help:
 
       PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9be, last bus=1
       PCI: Using configuration type 1
       PCI: Probing PCI hardware
       PCI: Enabling I/O for device 00:50
       PCI: Enabling I/O for device 00:58
       PCI: Enabling memory for device 00:59
       PCI: Enabling memory for device 00:5a
.......
       SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 01
       SIS5513: chipset revision 208
       SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
           ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1000-0x1007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
           ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1008-0x100f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
       hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct10 15, ATA DISK drive
       hdc: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8000, ATAPI CDROM drive
       ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
       ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
 
Guess I'm just not understanding why Win98 sees the card with IRQ 5 and linux sees it at 0. And I still don't even see the modem or audio device.
 
 
 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Matt  <mailto:mshade at threekay.com> Shade 
To: ale at ale.org
To: ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>  
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 13:13
Subject: [ale] PCI devices

Hi,
 
Starting the archive search now, but thought I'd ask on here in the meantime. 
I have an HP Pavilion with the SiS5513 PCI bus. Can't install NT on it, and I Hate Win98 (yes, with at capital "H"). But I have some apps for work that HAVE to run on Windows, so I'm keeping it dual boot for the time being til I can test VMWare or something else.
 
Anyway, there's a NE2000 clone and a 56k plug'n'play modem, and the audio device comes off the PCI bus. I rebuilt the kernel to make sure these devices were enabled, but I can't seem to see the modem or the audio device. The network card shows up, but then fails with:
    SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource Temporarily Unavailable
 
I've added an append "ether=" line in lilo, but no effect.
 
Boot up in windows to get the IRQs and IO addresses:
net card:  5  1020-103F
modem:   ?  03e8-03ef   (doesn't give an IRQ used)
audio:     10 1040-107f
 
I'm sure there's a simple explanation, but I've been away from installing linux for a while, so it'll probably take me a while to find it.
 
Any guidance is appreciated,
Matt
 
Oh yeah, this is with SuSE Linux 7.0, I believe the kernal is 2.2.16

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