[RULE] What should go in the RULE install guide?

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Tuesday 01 April 2003 10:25 pm, Da Worm wrote:
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> On 3/30/2003 at 9:32 PM Michael Fratoni wrote:
> >As promised, a disk2.img containing the needed module:
> >http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/slinky/slinky-v0.3.6.1/disk2.im
> >g
>
> Ok, got the laptop back, as well as a whopping 2Gig drive for it ;). 
> Here's where I get...
>
> 1. Boot with slinky disk 0.3.6
> 2. At boot prompt, type linux mem=16M
> 3. Hit enter when prompted
> 4. cd scripts
> 5. nano init_network.sh
> 6. change MODULE1 to "de620.o"
> 7. Set desired IP, gateway, and nameserver
> 8. Add io=0x378 irq=7 utp=1 to end of insmod command line (verified
> these from the DOS based setup utility) 9. Comment out HOST1, etc.
> 10. Save with ^O, exit with ^X
> 11. sh init_network.sh

A quick google search suggests:
	 io=io_port irq=IRQ bnc=1 utp=1

(From the Red Hat 6.2 manual)

Also other links with similar info here:
http://www.asp-linux.com/en/docs/intel/intel9.shtml
http://www.informatik.uni-siegen.de/softdocs/howto/Module-HOWTO-7.html

You might try another approach without using the script.
Boot, and just try various combinations from the command line:
insmod /path/to/de620.o io=0x378 irq=7 utp=1 bnc=1 de620_debug=2

Is this a true Dlink device, or a clone? If it's a clone, you can try 
adding clone=1 as well.

> At this point, I see a banner for the DE620 driver, it shows me the
> adapter MAC address, and that the adapter has 32K of RAM and is usting
> UTP.  At this point, the system is completely locked up.  I can't even
> ALT-F2 to the second virtual console.  Hard lock.  If I pull the power
> on the DE620, it pops back to the shell prompt.  I was able to use this
> adapter in Win98, so I am sure it isn't defective.  Any other ideas?
>
> Jeff.
>
> P.S. My friend also gave me a PCMCIA network card, so I may try this
> later.  I worked on my plumbing this afternoon, so I am too tired to
> get much farther into it, and from your previous post, it seems you are
> having fun with RH9, so no hurry.

Hrmm, I'll see what I can dig up. Again, I know _nothing_ about these 
devices. Here is a list of possible parameters for this module, in case 
you want to fool around with different options.

# modinfo de620
filename:    /lib/modules/2.4.18-24.8.0/kernel/drivers/net/de620.o
description: <none>
author:      <none>
license:     "GPL"
parm:        bnc int, description "DE-620 set BNC medium (0-1)"
parm:        utp int, description "DE-620 set UTP medium (0-1)"
parm:        io int, description "DE-620 I/O base address,required"
parm:        irq int, description "DE-620 IRQ number,required"
parm:        clone int, description "Check also for non-D-Link DE-620 
clones (0-1)"
parm:        de620_debug int, description "DE-620 debug level (0-2)"

The PCMCIA card might be easier. ;)

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