Daniel Woods wrote:
> During the install process, LM7.1 only picked up one of my ethernet
> cards (PCI D-link DFE-1530TX 10/100) which it recognized as a "Realtek
> 8139 10/100 (rt18139)" (I assume that's ok). My regular ISA 3c509 card
> was not recognized, why ?
>
> I want this machine as a firewall & IP Masq, web and mail server.
> So I want the 3c509 (ISA) as the internet accessible one for my
> cable modem, and the D-link (PCI) card for the local network
> attached to a 100Mbps switch.
>
> After the install, ifconfig only showed "lo" but no "eth0".
> /etc/conf.modules did have "alias eth0 rt18139" in it.
>
> I used linuxconf to try and setup network interfaces so that
> eth0 was the 3Com card, and eth1 was D-link. They showed up
> ok in conf.modules, but after a reboot there was nothing
> in ifconfig and no net access.
>
> I vaguely remember (3 am) not installing DHCP packages because
> I planned to assign IPs to the local network. My @home modem
> does give a DHCP IP, but I did not think I needed DHCP on
> my side (am I wrong?).
>
> I do have a name.com that I can use to set up the box, however
> none of this seemed to get the network working.
>
> Help please !
>
> Thanks... Dan.
In linuxconf under Networking -> Basic Host -> Adapters, you can list
your cards and point to the modules and assign IP addresses or spec
bootp/dhcp and tick the small box at the top that says "enabled", and
things should work fine as soon as you quit linuxconf, activating
changes. You need to specify the right module for handling them, as
well, but there is a drop-down list for that blank, and 3c509.o is
listed.
The 3c509 is an ISA card and most OSes are moving away from such legacy
devices, and never did detect them well, especially the PnP (PlugnPray)
types. I use 3c509s myself and always have to tell my computers about
them--that was true even when I still had windows. As a matter of fact,
the last encounter I had with Win98 was on a two network card machine.
Win98 would detect either one, but not both if they were both installed.
And a manual installaion attempt resulted in the hardware wizard popping
up to say "No No No, I have to detect that for you". I never did get the
cards working but that same machine is clucking happily along with one
card pointed at a DSL modem and the other at a hub, running 7.1 these
days.
Civileme
