Bug 17453 – Wrong module gets probed with davicom NIC's

• Status: RESOLVED LATER
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Johann Scheepers 2003-03-13 13:34:26 UTC]

Upon booting, after the livecd has modprobed through all modules, i notice the
tulip module is loaded instead of the dmfe module. This causes all networking
for that device to not work, although you can go through the whole net-setup
eth0 and whatnot.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from liveCD
2. lsmod |grep tulip


Expected Results:  
module dmfe must be probed instead of tulip

cat /proc/pci :
  Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 MBit (rev 64).
      IRQ 11.                   
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=20.Max Lat=40.
      I/O at 0xe400 [0xe4ff].   
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe3000000 [0xe30000ff].
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My davicom NIC has the 'Davicom DM910x' chipset.
This is a serious bug, seeing that no-one knowing of this will never get their
gentoo installation to go any further that the net-setup part.

[Comment 1 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2003-04-04 13:04:32 UTC]

the latest experimental livecds should have 
better hw/nic detection, instead of just a force 
of modules. 
We will see. 
www.gentoo.org/~livewire