[ale] PCI devices

[Rod Young]

My understanding is that there are linux drivers for some winmodems.
http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Winmodems-and-Linux-HOWTO.html

Armsby John-G16665 wrote:

> Winmodems are boat anchors for Linux.  You need a real modem such as a U.S. robotics courier or equivalent. I originally had problems upgrading to RH  6.1 from 5.0.  I originally had to purchase the 4front technologies drivers for the sound card.  After uprevving, the sound did not work, until I started fooling with the MIXER.  Suddenly it all worked.....
>
> John
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Shade [mailto:mshade at threekay.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 2:24 PM
> To: Matt Shade; ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] PCI devices
>
> Here's a little more info:
> - I CAN ping my own ip address, but any other address just times out
>
> - it appears that the BIOS is assigning IRQ 0 to the card, and I can't find anyway to change that:
>       "ne2k-pci.c:vpre-1.00e 5/27/99 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html <http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html>
>        WARNING: The PCI BIOS assigned this PCI NE2k card to IRQ 0, which is unlikely to work!.
>        You should use the PCI BIOS setup to assign a valid IRQ line.
>       ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0x1020, IRQ 0.
>       eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0x1020, IRQ 0, 00:40:05:5D:DC:60."
>
> - more dmesg snips that may help:
>
>        PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9be, last bus=1
>        PCI: Using configuration type 1
>        PCI: Probing PCI hardware
>        PCI: Enabling I/O for device 00:50
>        PCI: Enabling I/O for device 00:58
>        PCI: Enabling memory for device 00:59
>        PCI: Enabling memory for device 00:5a
> .......
>        SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 01
>        SIS5513: chipset revision 208
>        SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>            ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1000-0x1007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>            ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1008-0x100f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
>        hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct10 15, ATA DISK drive
>        hdc: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8000, ATAPI CDROM drive
>        ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>        ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
>
> Guess I'm just not understanding why Win98 sees the card with IRQ 5 and linux sees it at 0. And I still don't even see the modem or audio device.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Matt  <mailto:mshade at threekay.com> Shade
> To: ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 13:13
> Subject: [ale] PCI devices
>
> Hi,
>
> Starting the archive search now, but thought I'd ask on here in the meantime.
> I have an HP Pavilion with the SiS5513 PCI bus. Can't install NT on it, and I Hate Win98 (yes, with at capital "H"). But I have some apps for work that HAVE to run on Windows, so I'm keeping it dual boot for the time being til I can test VMWare or something else.
>
> Anyway, there's a NE2000 clone and a 56k plug'n'play modem, and the audio device comes off the PCI bus. I rebuilt the kernel to make sure these devices were enabled, but I can't seem to see the modem or the audio device. The network card shows up, but then fails with:
>     SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource Temporarily Unavailable
>
> I've added an append "ether=" line in lilo, but no effect.
>
> Boot up in windows to get the IRQs and IO addresses:
> net card:  5  1020-103F
> modem:   ?  03e8-03ef   (doesn't give an IRQ used)
> audio:     10 1040-107f
>
> I'm sure there's a simple explanation, but I've been away from installing linux for a while, so it'll probably take me a while to find it.
>
> Any guidance is appreciated,
> Matt
>
> Oh yeah, this is with SuSE Linux 7.0, I believe the kernal is 2.2.16
>
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