Regarding "HELP: eth0 not recognized" of 16:25 +0900 1998-01-30, David Iannucci wrote: >I've got an ISA ethernet card that has E2000 printed on it, and >so I've assumed it's an NE2000 compatible. There's a paper >note taped on the inside of the machine that says that the >ethernet card is IRQ 7, and I've tried booting from LILO with >"linux ether=7", but no go. I've tried any number of ways, but >to no avail. When I boot under W95, however, the card works >fine. Although I know practically nothing about hardware, I >was under the impression that NE2000 compatible cards were >very common and should definitely be seen by the default kernel.
You probably need to specify the IO address also (as stated in another reply). The "E2000" makes me suspect that the card is a cabletron card. The following is from the Ethernet HOWTO: << 5.11. Cabletron Donald writes: `Yes, another one of these companies that won't release its programming information. They waited for months before actually confirming that all their information was proprietary, deliberately wasting my time. Avoid their cards like the plague if you can. Also note that some people have phoned Cabletron, and have been told things like `a D. Becker is working on a driver for linux' -- making it sound like I work for them. This is NOT the case.' If you feel like asking them why they don't want to release their low level programming info so that people can use their cards, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tell them that you are using Linux, and are disappointed that they don't support open systems. And no, the usual driver development kit they supply is useless. It is just a DOS object file that you are supposed to link against. Which you aren't allowed to even reverse engineer. 5.11.1. E10**, E10**-x, E20**, E20**-x Status -- Semi-Supported These are NEx000 almost-clones that are reported to work with the standard NEx000 drivers, thanks to a ctron-specific check during the probe. If there are any problems, they are unlikely to be fixed, as the programming information is unavailable. >> -- Joel "Espy" Klecker Debian GNU/Linux Developer <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.espy.org/> <http://www.debian.org/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .