DE435-AA ethernet card is "Unknown device"

Ted Matsumura tedm@tedm.com
Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:03:04 -0800


You might want to try a tulip.c that is .91 or later.  Here's an ftp link to
Donald Becker's .91x:

ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/tulip.c

> -----Original Message-----
> From: simonst@WellsFargo.COM [mailto:simonst@WellsFargo.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 9:34 AM
> To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org; bad@kitenet.net
> Subject: FW: DE435-AA ethernet card is "Unknown device"
>
>
> 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
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>
> > -----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
> >
>