For the compex card, get the latest drivers at the
compex site. you may have to recompile for ur distro
(the available drivers are for RH 5.2) Anyways, its
better to recompile even if u get the binaries off the
net. i dont know the exact site. But i found it using
www.windrivers.com (hehe .. windows has its uses) ;)
The installation instructions are also included in the
tarball.
Best of luck
Rajeev J Sebastian
acid solutions
--- Sivaram N B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> hi........... my few cents.......
>
> Normally linux detects an ethernet card in the
> system during the install
> proces, it will automatically configure the kernel
> to use the card and load
> the appropriate network software.
>
> If you are configuring it after the install it is a
> two step process. First
> you must ensure that linux recognizes the network
> card and then you must
> configure the system to operate properly with your
> network.
>
> Configuring the Network card
> --------------------
> the basic command to configure network card is
> 'ifconfig' . This command sets
> the necessary parameters in the kernel table, so
> linux knows how to
> communicate with your network card. there are two
> formats of this ifconfig
> command
>
> ifconfig <interface>
> ifconfig interface <aftype> options | address
>
> check out man ifconfig for more information.
>
> The first format will give you the current
> configuration. I have an active
> interface so this command on my system would look
> like this..
>
> *******************
> sivanb@shiva:/home/sivanb[32] /sbin/ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr
> 00:60:67:76:AD:39
> inet addr:164.164.27.74
> Bcast:164.164.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500
> Metric:1
> RX packets:85202 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:78930 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:1171 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0x7000
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
> RX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> **********************
>
> the second line shows the first active network
> interface (eth0 for me). this
> will give you the device as well as the MAC address.
> Next line (line no.3)
> shows the ip address and subnet values for your
> network. Line 4 shows the
> status of your network (thank god mine is UP and
> running). Line 5 to Line 8
> shows some statistics in the network.
>
> In the eth0 check that your TX and RX packets count
> increase...if it doens't
> there is some mess up with the IP address. If there
> are errors and collisions
> then there is a media problem...in line 8 you will
> get information about
> hardware configuration of the network card.
>
> you can try the second format of ifconfig and set
> parameters in the kernel
> table. The command for setting an ethernet
> connection would look like
> this..(check man for accuracy).
>
> ifconfig eth0 <ip address> netmask <subnet id>
> broadcast <ip address>
>
> this will set the parameter and you can cross verify
> by giving ifconfig
> command again....
>
> if you have a router to get to other networks you
> can configure that also
> using 'route' commnad.
>
> in line 10 there is another entry for lo whic his a
> special device called the
> loopback device. It is automatically configured by
> linux to provide
> connectivty to itself. Thats why the IP will be
> 217.0.0.1 The status and
> statistics information is also shown for this
> device.
>
> as u have said that urs is a PCI card you shouldn't
> be having any problem in
> connecting to it, u can check the hardware
> compatibility list of all network
> cards in http://www.redhat.com/
>
> sorry for not giving the exact url...but it is very
> easy to spot.
>
>
> Shiva
>
>
>
> "Dr.K.S.Sangunni" wrote:
>
> > HI
> > I have some problem in making my 6.2 RH to
> recognize my network card. This
> > is Compex Ready link RL100ATX PCI card. I don't
> know how to make this to
> > work
> > rather than changing over to an other card. Any
> help please?
> > sangunni
> >
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