Re: tlug: PCI Network Card

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Darren Cook wrote:

> I've just reinstalled Linux (RedHat 5.1), but the network card was not
> recognized. ifconfig eth0 says no device. pinging it's IP number fails,
> though ping 127.0.0.1 works.
> 
> Looking in /var/log/messages it does not mention anything to do with the
> network card, good or bad. (SCSI devices are recognized so I'm better than
> the old install at least :-). Is everything that whizzes past at boot-time
> put into this file or should I look somewhere else?
> 
> When installing I chose NE2000 (PCI).
> Doing "more /proc/pci" tells me it is a Realtek 8029(rev 0), IRQ 9, I/O at
> 0xd000.
> 
> I tried specifying "linux ether=9,0xd000,eth0" when I boot (from floppy,
> not LILO), but it made no difference (ie. not even an error message).
> 
> I've been reading the Ethernet HOW-TO, and it keeps suggesting recompiling
> the kernel, as maybe the drivers are not compiled into the kernel. Is there
> a way to find out if this is the case? 

try logging in as root and 'modprobe ne'.  The ne2k-pci is Satan-spawn,
IMHO.  The regular ne.o works fine with both ISA and PCI Ne2k cards.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux English / Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc. (http://www.turbolinux.com)


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