I'm going to be bald if I pull out any more hair!

[Kinjana]

Hi,
I apologize at the outset for the length of this, but I'm really frustrated.

I recently purchased a new computer.
What got was:

Athlon 800 w/256mb 30Gb drive
CD and CDRW
Asus K7V mainboard
3com 3c905b network card
Soundblaster pci512
(winmodem -- removed!)
diamond 770 video

All hardware purportedly linux frinedly I have thus far been unable to got sound and networking to function correctly.

I've been trying to use Mandrake 7.2 'drake was the first distro I've had luck with on my old computer and I'd like to stick with it.

Any suggestions on what to try next will be appreciated.


First Networking:

I've been unable to get networking up. Linux sees the card but it assigns the 3c59x driver to the card. 3com support indicates that this should not be a problem for "older" 3c905 cards but newer ones should use the correct driver. rmmod won't remove the 3c59x module so after downloading and making the correct driver I just edit modules.conf to:

alias eth0 3c90x

and then reboot, still nothing despite the 3c90x driver being loaded properly. So I tried a different network card -- a linksys lne100tx that does work running mandrake in my other computer

following the instructions from linksys support pages I make and load the tulip driver for the card.

still nothing.

What happens is after loading the modules
and entering ifup eth0 I get the following response:

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource Temporarily Unavailable
SIOCADDRT: Network is Down
SIOCADDRT Network is unreachable

I also get a boottime error of "error fecthing high availability services: interface eth1 not available"

I get these errors with either card. Grabbing at straws I thought maybe it was a card conflict of some kind -- so I reinstalled 'drake without the sound card -- no help.

Second, the sound card--

it will not load the drivers at boottime, or if I enter insmod emu10k1 I get the following:

using /lib/modules/2.2.17.17-21mdk/misc/emu10k1.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17.17-21mdk/misc/emu10k1.o:
init_module: device or resource Busy
Hint:insmod errors can be caused by incorrect paramartes or by incorrect IRQ's

lsmod shows that soundcore is loaded, but emu10k1 is not. also, on shutdown I get an error "saving mixer settings aumix:error opening mixer"

AFter reading posts regarding these kinds of issues, the ONLY thing I can think to try at this point that I haven't is to turn off PNP aware os in the bios, but won't this create significant problems if I want to run this as a dualboot machine. (which I do running win2k)

Thoughts on this and anything else in this post will be much appreciated...

Kinj

[ 27 February 2001: Message edited by: Kinjana ]

[Lorithar]

*hmms*


I suspect that both your problems are coming from the system BIOS setting IRQ's outside of the normal range for these devices. Try this. check /proc/pci for the devices you are trying to configure, get the *real* irqs, then man insmod for the details of how to pass the corrected irq to the module.

Also .. .TURN OFF THE PNP OS INSTALLED flag in your bios!!!!! this will cause endless grief with linux. Even though the 2.4.0 kernels appear to deal well with this I suspect that some BIOSes still cause problems.

If your BIOS allows it you can preset the irq's in the bios for each slot on the motherboard. This can be a bonus if you intend to dual boot. Thus you will have the same irq's in winders and linux and minimize confusion.

[mychl]

I may be way off here, but i had a win98 machine that was all set and running well. While setting up my linux box, I turned the PnP off in the bios, win98 still works fine. I think once its configured and no new hardware is added, it should be alright. But if you want to install new hardware, turn it back on while configuring, reboot windows and turn it back off.

Good Luck

[Kinjana]

ok I hate to admit it after all I did trying to make it work otherwise, but switching the pnp aware os setting in the bios did it --

I'm posting from my new computer running mandrake while listening to mp3's.

grrr.....

I now am going to try to boot win2k though and see how much, if anything, blows up --

Kinj

I'm also going to try the same thing on my other computer -- I never could get sound working at all on it -- perhaps it's a similar issue.

[Kinjana]

fear over nothing

crap crap crap....

I had eschewed swtiching off the pnp aware os bios setting for fear that it would jack up windows (given how easily jackable windows is, can you blame me?)

anyway -- It's booted and working fine

so off to fixing my other box

[GodSpira1]

Actually PnP OS should be disabled for win2k installs as well. Its only for w9x. Ur lucky win2k installed correctly, unless you turned it on afterwards.

[Piix4]

if you try and go to the linksys web site & download netdrivers.tgz & you may have to get pci-scan.h from the same directory as netdrivers.tgz and replace the one in that or just get tulip.o working & pci-scan.o working . As for the card have you tried the nhf on installing alsa?
here? (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/soundcards/index.html)