DEC 21041 problem redhat 9

hi,

my machine has multiboot winxp and redhat 9.
i have a dec21041 nic pci 10 mbit which worked on win xp and on
redhat.

now i needed to change the hardware config, i put the dec nic in
another pci slot in my pc, and after that on win xp it works,
and in redhat at boot kudzu asks for configuring newly my nic, so i
configured it new.
after redhat is completely up, it is activated as eth0 (with tulip
driver like before).

my question: i can ping the ip of it, works,
but when i look at my hub (where it is connected), it is not attached
there.
when booting winxp, the nic is attached to the hub (lights on).

so, before putting the nic on another slot in my machine, it works
with xp and redhat,
after the change i cannot get it working on redhat anymore.

modprobe eth0 shows no errors.
dmesg|grep eth0 shows correct items.

i tried to remove the nic from /etc/sysconfig/hwconf and after reboot
i was able to configure it again with kudzu, but same problem, it is
not attached to my hub.

has anyone out there some tips what i can do about it?

regards, wolf

On 2 Oct 2003 02:52:32 -0700, Wolf-D. Perl <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> my machine has multiboot winxp and redhat 9.
> i have a dec21041 nic pci 10 mbit which worked on win xp and on
> redhat.
>
> now i needed to change the hardware config, i put the dec nic in
> another pci slot in my pc, and after that on win xp it works,
> and in redhat at boot kudzu asks for configuring newly my nic, so i
> configured it new.
> after redhat is completely up, it is activated as eth0 (with tulip
> driver like before).
>
> my question: i can ping the ip of it, works,
> but when i look at my hub (where it is connected), it is not attached
> there.
> when booting winxp, the nic is attached to the hub (lights on).

For some reason automatic configurations try to use 'tulip' module even
with old 10baseT real DEC chips (SuSE does that too). For my built-in
10baseT nic that lspci -v identifies as "Digital Equipment Corporation
DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)", the de4x5 module works better. de4x5.txt in
kernel sources says this module recognizes following chips:

DC21040 (no SROM)
DC21041[A]
DC21140[A]
DC21142
DC21143

All I had to do was change my alias eth1 in /etc/modules.conf to de4x5,
but it has been awhile since I used RH, so I am not sure how to tell kudzu
to use the more appropriate de4x5 module.

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>
> All I had to do was change my alias eth1 in /etc/modules.conf to de4x5,
> but it has been awhile since I used RH, so I am not sure how to tell kudzu
> to use the more appropriate de4x5 module.


Ok, thanks for that tip, i cahnged it in modules.conf and then it is
working now.

but i have the problem you mentioned now, how to get kudzu know the
new hardware setting.

the prob now is when i want to open redhat-config-network the gui
crashes saying

Component: redhat-config-network
Version: 1.2.0
Summary: TB /usr/src/build/228093-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.2/sre.py:137:search:TypeError:
expected string or buffer
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/redhat-config-network-gui", line 154, in ?
window = mainDialog()
File "/usr/src/build/226257-noarch/install/usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py",
line 154, in __init__
File "/usr/src/build/226257-noarch/install/usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py",
line 225, in load
File "/usr/src/build/226257-noarch/install/usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py",
line 232, in loadDevices
File "/usr/src/build/226257-noarch/install/usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/NCDeviceList.py",
line 210, in getDeviceList
File "/usr/src/build/226257-noarch/install/usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/NCDeviceList.py",
line 117, in load
File "/usr/src/build/226257-noarch/install/usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/plugins/NCDevWireless.py",
line 34, in load
File "/usr/src/build/226257-noarch/install/usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/NCWireless.py",
line 52, in load
File "/usr/src/build/228093-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.2/sre.py",
line 137, in search
return _compile(pattern, flags).search(string)
TypeError: expected string or buffer

Local variables in innermost frame:
pattern: ^s:
flags: 0
string: None


it seems that the kernel don't know the device, so do i have to
recompile my kernel or how can i get the machine know the device
manually?

any hints?

regards wolf