Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-28 Thread Art Edwards
I hope this is not too late. I have several machines running NE2000 ISA cards. To get them to work I had to use DOS to turn off the plug-n-play feature and to assure that each is using a different IRQ and io address. For single NIC machines, I compiled ne into the kernel, making sure that the IO

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting urbanyon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): sorry - which file is this? i'm having big NIC problems as well. On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, David Wright wrote: You can put module-loading options in a file called, say, /etc/modutils/local and then run ^^^ Cheers, --

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-25 Thread urbanyon
sorry - which file is this? i'm having big NIC problems as well. On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, David Wright wrote: You can put module-loading options in a file called, say, /etc/modutils/local and then run update-modules to incorporate them in modules.conf. man update-modules explains. Here's

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-21 Thread Xucaen
--- Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, John Griffiths wrote: trying to do a new install on a box with an NE2000 NIC I was never able to get this done in the install. I completed the install without networking and then, after some research, placed: funny, I

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-21 Thread Xucaen
--- Vincent Besse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ne io=0x300 (replace of course with with your values) in /etc/modules. That's all. Vincent I thought so! but when I edited it, the comments at the top scared me. ;-) I have installed slackware before and maybe I just got spoiled. Slackware has

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Xucaen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): --- Vincent Besse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ne io=0x300 (replace of course with with your values) in /etc/modules. That's all. Vincent I thought so! but when I edited it, the comments at the top scared me. ;-) /etc/modules shouldn't have scary

NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-20 Thread John Griffiths
Hello trying to do a new install on a box with an NE2000 NIC having trouble with the module on install (that is it fails) do i need to tell it the IRQ/IO arguments? if so what is the syntax? thanks for your help John

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-20 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, John Griffiths wrote: trying to do a new install on a box with an NE2000 NIC having trouble with the module on install (that is it fails) do i need to tell it the IRQ/IO arguments? if so what is the syntax? I was never able to get this done in the install. I completed

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-20 Thread John Griffiths
I was never able to get this done in the install. I completed the install without networking and then, after some research, placed: alias eth0 ne options ne io=0x300 irq=10 in the file /etc/modutils/network. Of course, after more research, I had to complete the rest of the network

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-20 Thread Matthew Dalton
John Griffiths wrote: I was never able to get this done in the install. I completed the install without networking and then, after some research, placed: alias eth0 ne options ne io=0x300 irq=10 in the file /etc/modutils/network. Of course, after more research, I had to complete

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-20 Thread John Griffiths
Load it on install anyway, if you can, because it'll save time later. When you try to load the module, does the installer give you a place for you to type the module options? I can't check this at the moment, but I think it does. Type in it something like: io=0x300 irq=10 (as Dwight said above,

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-20 Thread ktb
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 10:44:57AM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: I was never able to get this done in the install. I completed the install without networking and then, after some research, placed: alias eth0 ne options ne io=0x300 irq=10 in the file /etc/modutils/network. Of course,

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-20 Thread Vincent Besse
John Griffiths wrote: Hello Hi trying to do a new install on a box with an NE2000 NIC having trouble with the module on install (that is it fails) do i need to tell it the IRQ/IO arguments? if so what is the syntax? You can use isapnptools to detect and install your card. Then you only

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-20 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, John Griffiths wrote: I was never able to get this done in the install. I completed the install without networking and then, after some research, placed: alias eth0 ne options ne io=0x300 irq=10 in the file /etc/modutils/network. Of course, after more research,