paul Posted March 15, 2006 Report Share Posted March 15, 2006 its been a while since I ask for help ;) I may have forgotten how but here goes. OK so I bought me a DLINK 580tx 4 port card :) loaded sundance driver under 2.6 kernel I can see ACPI assigning IRQ number to each port I can see each port with lspci I can see evidence of the sundance driver loading in dmesg but no eth's ?? ifconfig -a shows nothing is there a trick? I booted gentoo livecd, and that does the same thing (under a 2.6 kernel) I haven't tried a 2.4 kernel .. is that the trick? any help would earn you beer :) Paul. [moved from Hardware by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted March 15, 2006 Report Share Posted March 15, 2006 Have you offered the card a beer? ;) I'm not sure how it could assign irq's without acknowledging the ports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 15, 2006 Report Share Posted March 15, 2006 have you tried grabbing the diagnostic tools? they can be found on on this page (direct link to .c file). perhaps they can help point to where the problem is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted March 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2006 emerge mii-diag :) I'll give that a shot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 15, 2006 Report Share Posted March 15, 2006 emerge mii-diag hehe...i didn't check portage for it :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 15, 2006 Report Share Posted March 15, 2006 How did you load the nic driver? Did you compile the driver so that it was monolithic within the kernel, or as a module? I've found more success when using as a module than when attempting to put it as a part of the kernel. For example, I installed Gentoo 2005.1 and this was kernel 2.6.12.6 and the driver tg3 was compiled in the kernel. It worked, but then when I updated to a later kernel, it then stopped working. As soon as I configured as a module, and made sure it was loading at bootup it worked OK. You all know a lot more than me anyway, but just a thought :P Oh, and another thing I found with another nic card was with a Marvell Yukon card. Wouldn't work under Gentoo, but was fine under Mandriva, probably due to some kernel patch. I did patch the Gentoo kernel, but it still wouldn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted March 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2006 it seems the sundance module doesn't work with 2.6 :( I've booted into freebsd and can see all devices .. I guess that's progress Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 15, 2006 Report Share Posted March 15, 2006 I've checked in 2.6.15.6 kernel, and it shows under the Device Drivers/Networking/10-100 a sundance alta module. Maybe this would work? Or have you already tried this, or using the driver provided by dlink? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted March 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2006 2.6 sundance driver won't work with 580tx, but works with 530tx (more expensive card :) ) The driver from dlink is for 2.4 kernel .. I'm gonna play with bsd for a while, and if I give up, I'll drop in a 2.4 kernel I guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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