Re: [LIH] Help needed installing RedHat6.0 on PentiumII

[Rohit]

> Well, RHL either detects a network card, or offers a list for you to choose
> from. Most PCI cards are detected. If it is not detected, then it might be
> because the card is ISA. ISA cards run on the ne.o driver, and you will have
> to specify IO address and IRQ in your conf.modules file. IRQ can occassionally
> be found out while the PC is booting (the BIOS comes up with a line thats says
> "network controller" and its IRQ). As for IO address, you will have to try
> various addresses. Start at 0x220 and go on till 0x340 - you will succeed
> somewhere.

Do the o/ses reassign the IRQs etc while detecting/configuring a card? I
have seen that the values reported at the bootup are different from
those used by windows NT on my machine. I have disabled PnP o/s from
CMOS setup and Linux uses the same settings as reported... basically I
had to hard-code those into conf.modules... no wonder it uses those :-D

Rohit

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