Hello all,

I am very new to Linux and have a question.

I have just recently purchased Slackware and did the install. I am not at the point where I try and set up my NIC card, but or the life of me, I cannot get the operating system to recognize this NIC (I think).

Here is the hardware
Dell 7000 laptop
Version 3.2.5 PCMCIA card utility
Lynksys NP100 10/100 NIC

When I try to run the "ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.10 broadcast 192.168.1.255 \ netmask 255.255.255.0" it comes back not recognizing eth0 as follows:
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
Eth0: Unknown interfacce : No such device
SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device
Eth0: Unknown interfacce : No such device

I read 5.1.2 of the slackware manual that addresses PCMCIA network devices and did find that the pcmcia package was installed as per the directories /etc/rc.d/<file:rc.pcmcia>; /etc/pcmcia; and /lib/modules/2.4.22/pcmcia.

I tried to take the card out and put it in again and found that there was no beep. The hard-drive does, however, light up for a moment each time I plug that card back in. I did also find that the PCMCIA Lynksys NP100 NIC is supposedly supported per another Linux laptop website.

I'm all out of ideas. Can you help me?

Do appreciate your time, and thank you.

Nick "the Newbie"

Post the output of:

cardctl status

cardctl ident

dmesg

lsmod

...and modprobe pcnet_cs to load the driver for your PCMCIA network card.

Håkan

Here are the results from

cardctl status

cardctl ident

dmesg

lsmod

...as follows:

cardctl status:
Socket 0:
5V 16-bit PC Card
function 0: [ready]
Socket 1:
5V 16-bit PC Card
function 0: [ready]


cardctl ident:
Socket 0:
product info: "Psion Dacom", "Gold Card Global 56K+Fax", "56K+Fax", "V8.25"
manfid: 0x016c, 0x0005
function: 2 (serial)
Socket 1:
product info: "Network Everywhere", "Fast Ethernet 10/100 PC Card", "3.0", "AX88190"
manfid: 0x0149, 0xc1ab
function: 6 (network)



lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-pcm-oss 37252 0 (unused)
snd-mixer-oss 11992 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
keybdev 1952 0 (unused)
mousedev 4244 1
hid 21156 0 (unused)
usbmouse 2008 0 (unused)
input 3200 0 [keybdev mousedev hid usbmouse]
uhci 24496 0 (unused)
usbcore 58400 1 [hid usbmouse uhci]
snd-es1968 14604 0 (unused)
snd-pcm 55904 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-es1968]
snd-timer 13252 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc 6004 0 [snd-es1968 snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 37240 0 [snd-es1968]
snd-mpu401-uart 3136 0 [snd-es1968]
snd-rawmidi 12512 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 3920 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd 27460 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-es1968 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore 3332 5 [snd]
pcnet_cs 11904 0 (unused)
8390 6000 0 [pcnet_cs]
crc32 2880 0 [8390]
serial_cs 4848 0 (unused)
ds 6568 2 [pcnet_cs serial_cs]
yenta_socket 10368 2
pcmcia_core 40032 0 [pcnet_cs serial_cs ds yenta_socket]
ide-scsi 9424 0
agpgart 39576 0 (unused)

dmesg
Linux version 2.4.22 (root@midas) (gcc version 3.2.3) #6 Tue Sep 2 17:43:01 PDT 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000eb800 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000004000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffeb800 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
64MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 16384
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 12288 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
DMI not present.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz ramdisk_size=7000 root=/dev/hda3 vga=normal ro
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 366.682 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 732.36 BogoMIPS
Memory: 61620k/65536k available (1813k kernel code, 3528k reserved, 614k data, 116k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 128K
CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 0a
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9d3, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:04.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:00.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:04.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:03.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 7000K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
hda: FUJITSU MHG2102AT, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03a9d80, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2202, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 19640880 sectors (10056 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1299/240/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
8regs : 606.800 MB/sec
32regs : 364.000 MB/sec
pII_mmx : 823.200 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 856.800 MB/sec
raid5: using function: p5_mmx (856.800 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002)
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 8192)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
FAT: bogus logical sector size 62213
UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted.
FAT: bogus logical sector size 62213
FAT: bogus logical sector size 62213
reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal
reiserfs: checking transaction log (device ide0(3,3)) ...
for (ide0(3,3))
reiserfs: replayed 10 transactions in 2 seconds
ide0(3,3):Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed
Adding Swap: 68036k swap-space (priority -1)
ide0(3,3):Removing [15607 14 0x0 SD]..done
ide0(3,3):Removing [15607 12 0x0 SD]..done
ide0(3,3):There were 2 uncompleted unlinks/truncates. Completed
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 28M
agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Intel PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:04.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:00.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:04.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:03.0
Yenta IRQ list 0698, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000010
Yenta IRQ list 0698, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000010
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
ttyS01 at port 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
eth0: pcnet_reset_8390() did not complete.
pcnet_cs: this is an AX88190 card!
pcnet_cs: use axnet_cs instead.
pcnet_cs: unable to read hardware net address for io base 0x300
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:08.0
es1968: not attempting power management.
es1968: clocking to 48000
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:07.2
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xfce0, IRQ 11
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-1, assigned address 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 4 ports detected
hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-1.2, assigned address 3
usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x46d/0xc00b) is not claimed by any active driver.
usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse
input0: Logitech USB Mouse on usb1:3.0
usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

I do thank you very much for trying to help me.

THANK YOU

Nick

Look at the dmesg output:Try modprobe -r pcnet_cs first to remove the pcnet_cs module, then try installing the axnet_cs driver: modprobe axnet_cs. After you have done that, check the dmesg output - it should have a line or two about the axnet module (if it failed or worked, plus perhaps some other useful information).

Håkan

Made sense, but when I tried to remove pcnet_cs and added axnet_cs, it appears not to have changed anything when I ran dmesg. It still printed out the code:
pcnet_cs: this is an AX88190 card!
pcnet_cs: use axnet_cs instead.
pcnet_cs: unable to read hardware net address for io base 0x300

Any other ideas that I could try?

Nick

Hmm, I did a little Googling on this and found this interesting post. It relates to SuSE but it's still interesting and it could be worth a try.

Håkan

I also am running slackware on a Dell 7000 and had problems when install the network card. Using netconfig it says to setup the card as a loopback. However, when I did this it could not find the card, but when I installed it as DCHP it found the card right away, though it required a reboot to getit working properly.

Hope it helps.

Thanks for your insight. I do not understand much about linux yet. Can you tell me what to type in to try to have my card recognized?

Thanks

Nick "the Newbie"