FW: DE435-AA ethernet card is "Unknown device"

simonst@WellsFargo.COM simonst@WellsFargo.COM
Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:34:17 -0800


I tried both de4x5.o and tulip.o, and both failed with the "init_module:
Device or resource busy" error (see sample below). 

How could the "device or resource" be busy?

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Matsumura [mailto:tedm@tedm.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 5:18 PM
To: simonst@WellsFargo.COM
Subject: RE: DE435-AA ethernet card is "Unknown device"


Have you tried tulip.o module?

ted
www.linux-driver.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: simonst@WellsFargo.COM [mailto:simonst@WellsFargo.COM]
> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 5:04 PM
> To: bad@kitenet.net; debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
> Subject: DE435-AA ethernet card is "Unknown device"
> 
> 
> I would like some help getting the ethernet controller card up on my DEC
> AS1000.  
> The card is a DEC DE435-AA "EtherWORKS Turbo PCI".  Neither my original
> 2.0.36 nor my new 2.2.13 kernel & de4x5.o module can talk to it.  
> I hope the
> following output will help:
> 
> >dmesg
>  . . . . . . 
> Unknown Tulip-style PCI ethernet chip type 1011 0000 detected: not
> configured".
> >cat /proc/pci
> PCI devices found:
>  . . . . . .
> Bus 0, device  11, function 0:
>   Ethernet controller: DEC Unknown device (rev 35).
>     Vendor id=1011.  Device id=0.
>     Medium devsel.   Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 16. Master capable.
> Latency=32.
>     I/O at 0x9100 [0x9101]
>     Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x4200100 [0x4200100].
> >insmod de4x5
> ./de4x5.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
> >insmod tulip
> ./tulip.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
>