Hi everybody, Yesterday I tried to install SuSE 7.3 on a IBM RS600 B50 (model 7046, the one without video adapter), I booted from the console using the procedure and the images described at the url : http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/ubrueck_floppyinstall.html the boot process works perfectly (from the OF prompt I used the line boot floppy:,zimage root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 console=ttyS0,9600 fake_initrd) except for one thing : when I try to load the network card module I get an error saying that is impossible to load the module lance32 ; my machine has 2 ADM PCNET ethernet adpter, so the driver should be the right one (I used it on SuSE ppc 7.0) , I also tried to remove one of the adapters (the one on PCI BUS) but unfortunately nothing changed. I tried also the autoprobing, but it didn't load the network module. Is there something that I'm missing ? could you suggest me something ? thanks in advance M. -- () ASCII Ribbon Campaign /\ Against HTML Mail
On Fri, Mar 28, Mario wrote:
Hi everybody, Yesterday I tried to install SuSE 7.3 on a IBM RS600 B50 (model 7046, the one without video adapter), I booted from the console using the procedure and the images described at the url :
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/ubrueck_floppyinstall.html
the boot process works perfectly (from the OF prompt I used the line boot floppy:,zimage root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 console=ttyS0,9600 fake_initrd) except for one thing :
when I try to load the network card module I get an error saying that is impossible to load the module lance32 ; my machine has 2 ADM PCNET ethernet adpter, so the driver should be the right one (I used it on SuSE ppc 7.0) , I also tried to remove one of the adapters (the one on PCI BUS) but unfortunately nothing changed. I tried also the autoprobing, but it didn't load the network module.
Hmmm, just a quick guess: Most of the known drivers are allready compiled into the kernel itself. Are you really sure that you need to load a module?
Is there something that I'm missing ? could you suggest me something ?
Some more info about the network cards might help.
thanks in advance
M. -- () ASCII Ribbon Campaign /\ Against HTML Mail
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when I try to load the network card module I get an error saying that is impossible to load the module lance32 ; my machine has 2 ADM PCNET ethernet adpter, so the driver should be the right one (I used it on SuSE ppc 7.0) , I also tried to remove one of the adapters (the one on PCI BUS) but unfortunately nothing changed. I tried also the autoprobing, but it didn't load the network module.
Hmmm, just a quick guess: Most of the known drivers are allready compiled into the kernel itself. Are you really sure that you need to load a module?
Wel I think so, becouse I'm trying the ftp installation, and if I try to go on and I select "start installation" the system complains about the need of a network module
Is there something that I'm missing ? could you suggest me something ?
Some more info about the network cards might help.
well I have 2 nics, one is integrated into the rs6000 , the other is on the pci bus ; doing a lspci I get : 00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40) 00:0b.0 ISA bridge: Symphony Labs W83C553 (rev 10) 00:0b.1 IDE interface: Symphony Labs SL82c105 (rev 05) 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet LANCE] (rev 26) 00:0d.0 Class ff00: IBM MPIC interrupt controller 00:10.0 SCSI storage controller: Symbios Logic Inc. (formerly NCR) 53c875 (rev 04) 00:16.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet LANCE] (rev 26) M.
On Fri, Mar 28, Mario Caruso wrote:
when I try to load the network card module I get an error saying that is impossible to load the module lance32 ; my machine has 2 ADM PCNET ethernet adpter, so the driver should be the right one (I used it on SuSE ppc 7.0) , I also tried to remove one of the adapters (the one on PCI BUS) but unfortunately nothing changed. I tried also the autoprobing, but it didn't load the network module.
Hmmm, just a quick guess: Most of the known drivers are allready compiled into the kernel itself. Are you really sure that you need to load a module?
Wel I think so, becouse I'm trying the ftp installation, and if I try to go on and I select "start installation" the system complains about the need of a network module
Is there something that I'm missing ? could you suggest me something ?
Some more info about the network cards might help.
well I have 2 nics, one is integrated into the rs6000 , the other is on the pci bus ; doing a lspci I get :
00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40) 00:0b.0 ISA bridge: Symphony Labs W83C553 (rev 10) 00:0b.1 IDE interface: Symphony Labs SL82c105 (rev 05) 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet LANCE] (rev 26) 00:0d.0 Class ff00: IBM MPIC interrupt controller 00:10.0 SCSI storage controller: Symbios Logic Inc. (formerly NCR) 53c875 (rev 04) 00:16.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet LANCE] (rev 26)
Well, as far as I understood your mail, you tried it once with no succes, than you removed the PCI card ... did you also try just to use the other one without to remove it? Furthermore, what happens if you do a 'modprobe pcnet32' ? Any error messages?
M.
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Well, as far as I understood your mail, you tried it once with no succes, than you removed the PCI card ... did you also try just to use the other one without to remove it?
Furthermore, what happens if you do a 'modprobe pcnet32' ? Any error messages?
I've tried 5 or 6 times, sometimes with both cards installed, sometimes just with the embedded one , the only operation I can do is to select "load Network card module" from the installation menu. I'd like to do a test like modprobe , but I don't know how to get a shell prompt during the installation procedure, you know, I'm booting via the serial console and I see the output on my machine by calling ssh to connect on a machine directly connected to the rs6k. eg: serial ssh RS6K -------- MACHINE1 -------- MYMACHINE M.
Hello,
Well, as far as I understood your mail, you tried it once with no succes, than you removed the PCI card ... did you also try just to use the other one without to remove it?
Furthermore, what happens if you do a 'modprobe pcnet32' ? Any error messages?
I've tried 5 or 6 times, sometimes with both cards installed, sometimes just with the embedded one , the only operation I can do is to select "load Network card module" from the installation menu.
I'd like to do a test like modprobe , but I don't know how to get a shell prompt during the installation procedure, you know, I'm booting via the serial console and I see the output on my machine by calling ssh to connect on a machine directly connected to the rs6k.
To load the pcnet32 module you need to load the module mii.o as well. In linuxrc press control+c -> ignore the warning that this will end linuxrc and press "r". At the prompt write: insmod /modules/mii.o Afterwards you should be able to load the pcnet32 modul in Kernelmodules/Network drivers Bye Ursel
To load the pcnet32 module you need to load the module mii.o as well. In linuxrc press control+c -> ignore the warning that this will end linuxrc and press "r". At the prompt write: insmod /modules/mii.o Afterwards you should be able to load the pcnet32 modul in Kernelmodules/Network drivers
wow !!!! it works ^___^ thank you very much Ursel, now I have the module loaded, I still have some trouble in reaching the ftp server, but I suspect that is something regarding the network I'm using. I'll write back to report if the installation worked
Bye Ursel
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Hi to all, I write just to report that I've been able to install it, with Ursula trick I was able to load the NIC driver and perform the installation via ftp. After the installation I had to copy the zImage and the modules on a floppy , because the original kernel shipped with 7.3 distro, refused to boot correctly (it reported an error message in the OF , unfortunately I don't have the exact message, but it wassomething like "Default catch error in load base address xxxxxxx" very similar to the error provided when I tried a Prep kernel on this machine). After the error message, I re-booted from the floppy , and from the linuxrc menu I've chosen start the installaled system, I starded manually the nic (using the modules obtained from ramdisk.floppy-install.gz), and downloaded the k_deflt-2.4.17-12.ppc.rpm and modutils-2.4.11-1.ppc.rpm from a ftp site (the base ftp url is : ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/BETA/kernel/deflt/ ) ; with this kernel I was able to boot and I have a working linux installation. Thanks again to Matthias and Ursula for their support bye M. -- () ASCII Ribbon Campaign /\ Against HTML Mail
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