[Arcnet] continuing trouble with getting arcnet up

[Charles E Campbell Jr]

Peter Fales wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:00:02PM -0500, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote:
>  
>
>>arcnet: COM20020 chipset support (by David Woodhouse et al.)
>>arc_rawmode: disagrees about version of symbol arcnet_unregister_proto
>>arc_rawmode: Unknown symbol arcnet_unregister_proto
>>    
>>
>
>Those errors look like a mismatch between the version of the kernel
>that the modules are built for an the kernel that's actually running.  
>Does your kernel-source tree match the running kernel?
>  
>

Yes, it does (both are 2187).  Anyway, for unknown reasons, when I 
booted up this morning,
the following commands worked!

 insmod arcnet.ko
insmod arc-rawmode.ko
insmod com20020.ko
insmod com20020-pci.ko node=3 device=arc0 timeout=3 backplane=0 clockp=0 
clockm=0
insmod rfc1201.ko

Some directions I found also said to do the following:

arcnet-howto.html/ djinni? ifconfig arc0 up
arc0: unknown interface: No such device

So, the above modules got inserted ok but I still can't seem to get an 
arc0 device.  My next
experiment: I currently have two arcnet cards in my computer.  I'm 
seriously thinking about
moving one to a Windows box, just in case the two cards are stomping on 
each other and preventing
their being recognized.  OTOH:

djinni? ifup arc0
/sbin/ifup: configuration for arc0 not found.
Usage: ifup <device name>

so perhaps I need a

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-arc0

although the only hits I have on Google are not in English (and, in 
glancing at them, I don't see an
example of such a file).

BTW, I'll be happy with using socket-bind-connect-etc to use the 
device.   I have no particular
desire to use rawmode, although I do have examples for rawmode use and 
none for tcp/ip
style use.

Thank you for helping,
Charles Campbell