adding extra drivers on install

[Christian Casimir]

Matt Zimmerman a écrit :
> It looks like your hardware has been detected all of the correct drivers
> have been loaded automatically.  Can you start from the beginning, and tell
> us exactly the problem that you're experiencing?  Does sound and/or
> networking not work?  What did you try, and did you see any error messages?

Sure... I installed the 09/29/04 daily cd of Unbuntu on my laptop :

IBM Thinkpad X20 (2662 37G) Laptop
Pentium III 6OOMHz
128KB SDRAM 100MHz (SODIMM 144 broches)
20GB IDE HDD
ATI RAGE MOBILITY M-AGP 2x
Cirrus Logic CS 4281
Modem 56K 3Com Mini PCI
Ethernet Adapter 3Com 10/100 Mini PCI


First, the ethernet problem. It occurs during the second stage of
installation. On "Configuring Ethernet Interfaces", I get :

eth0: command 0x5800 did not complete ! Status=0xffff
eth0: command 0x2804 did not complete ! Status=0xffff


Then, I get the following messages, on and on (unless I Ctrl-Del the
process) :

eth0: command 0x3002 did not complete ! Status=0xffff
0: @c52bc200 length 8000002a status 0000002a
1: @c52bc2a0 length 8000002a status 0000002a
2: @c52bc340 length 8000002a status 0000002a
3: @c52bc3e0 length 8000002a status 0000002a
4: @c52bc480 length 8000002a status 0000002a
5: @c52bc520 length 80000048 status 00000048
6: @c52bc5c0 length 8000002a status 0000002a
7: @c52bc660 length 8000002a status 0000002a
8: @c52bc700 length 8000002a status 0000002a
9: @c52bc7a0 length 80000048 status 00000048
10: @c52bc840 length 8000002a status 0000002a
11: @c52bc8e0 length 8000002a status 0000002a
12: @c52bc980 length 8000002a status 0000002a
13: @c52bca20 length 8000002a status 0000002a
14: @c52bcac0 length 80000048 status 00000048
15: @c52bcb60 length 8000002a status 0000002a
eth0: command 0x5800 did not complete ! Status=0xffff
eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status ffstatus ffff.
diagnostics: net ffff media ffff dma ffffffff fifo ffff
eth0: Transmitter encountered 16 collisions -- network cable problem ?
eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device ?
flags; bus-master 1, dirty 0(0) current 16(0)
Transmit list ffffffff vs. c52bc200


And under Unbuntu's GUI, no networking is possible.

If I uninstall the ethernet device from the Ethernet Configuration
Panel, everything goes smoothly on next boots (otherwise it displays the
same messages).


Somebody on the French list suggested I try adding these lines to the 
grub menu.lst :

#kopt
pci=noapci

yet it didn't change anything...

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Now for the sound problem...

There's an slice from dmesg :

ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
DLLRDY not seen
CS4281: probe of 0000:00:0b.0 failed with error -5


On booting Ubuntu :

alsactl : load_state : 1143 : No sound cards found


When I play an audio CD, I get no sound.

When I try to adjust volume with the volume cursor (loudspeaker icon on
the desktop bar), it won't move (systematically gets back to zero). And
when I try to open the volume controller, an error message says (maybe
not exactly: translated from the French) :

"error: Sorry, no element and/or mixing device was found."

When I launch alsamixer, I get :
"alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: no such device "

When I launch alsaconfig, I get :
"bash: alsaconfig: command not found" (as I wasn't sure whether it was
alsaconfig or alsaconf, I did both : same result)

So, I checked if alsa had been installed alright with synaptic -> search
  "alsa" :

alsa-base		installed
alsa-config		installed
gstreamer0.8-alsa	installed
lidpt-plugins-alsa	installed

Still, I expected to find these directories which actually don't exist :
/dev/mixer   /dev/dsp0   /dev/sequencer   /dev/midi


What's next ?