tlug: PCI Network Card

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

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? 

Thanks in advance,

Darren

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