на этой машинке 256Mb RAM, не совсем много, но для работы драйвера, думаю, должно хватить.

почти все сервисы уже остановил.

и вот что в ответ

modprobe: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0xd1
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: [<c014f8e3>] __alloc_pages+0x28b/0x29d
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: [<c014f90d>] __get_free_pages+0x18/0x24
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: [<c0152ea2>] kmem_getpages+0x15/0x94
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: [<c0153b5f>] cache_grow+0x107/0x233
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: [<c0153e82>] cache_alloc_refill+0x1f7/0x227
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: [<c01543b7>] __kmalloc+0x6b/0x7d
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: [<d02672bd>] tau32_alloc_adapter+0x38/0x11e [ce]
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: [<d0267751>] tau32_probe+0x10/0x153 [ce]
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: [<c01f1bd9>] pci_device_probe_static+0x2a/0x3d
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: [<c01f1c07>] __pci_device_probe+0x1b/0x2c
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: [<c01f1c33>] pci_device_probe+0x1b/0x2d
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: [<c0252227>] bus_match+0x27/0x45
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: [<c02522f0>] driver_attach+0x37/0x66
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: [<c02526a5>] bus_add_driver+0x77/0x97
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: [<c0252ac0>] driver_register+0x51/0x58
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: [<c01f1df1>] pci_register_driver+0x85/0xa1
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: [<d015b00a>] init_module+0xa/0x15 [ce]
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: [<c01410b6>] sys_init_module+0xe9/0x1d0
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: [<c0318e63>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: Mem-info:
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: DMA per-cpu:
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: Normal per-cpu:
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 28, high 84, batch 14
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 28, batch 14
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: HighMem per-cpu: empty
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel:
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: Free pages: 908kB (0kB HighMem)
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: Active:15332 inactive:42545 dirty:42 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:227 slab:2308 mapped:14736 pagetables:462
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: DMA free:212kB min:32kB low:64kB high:96kB active:520kB inactive:11800kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: Normal free:696kB min:464kB low:928kB high:1392kB active:60808kB inactive:158380kB present:236800kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:256kB high:384kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: DMA: 41*4kB 2*8kB 0*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 212kB
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: Normal: 4*4kB 13*8kB 0*16kB 2*32kB 0*64kB 2*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 696kB
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: HighMem: empty
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: Swap cache: add 45, delete 45, find 1/2, race 0+0
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: 0 bounce buffer pages
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: Free swap: 521956kB
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: 63296 pages of RAM
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: 0 pages of HIGHMEM
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: 1485 reserved pages
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: 33080 pages shared
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: 0 pages swap cached
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: ce: out of memory 98012/3467
Nov 1 15:46:24 mfs kernel: Cronyx Tau32-PCI: probe of 0000:01:01.0 failed with error -12