I fixed up one of these machines for my home network with windows3.1. I found
an ethernet card which I found out is an ne2 compatible card (not ne2000), you
might try compiling that into your kernel.
Robin Radez CC wrote:
> Hey all, hope ya can help me out here-
> I have no clue what info I need to give, so I'm hoping I give slightly too
> much...
> I've got this old IBM PS/2 Model 80 that I've put Slackware 3.5 on, with
> kernel 2.1.103 (it's got better MCA support than 2.0 kernels). The PS/2
> has a MCA architecture, so I had to use the MCA boot image for it, with
> support for SCSI devices (SCSI HD). Recently, in an effort to do
> something useful with it, I bought a Digital DEMCA ethernet adapter
> DE210-AA. I installed it OK in the system, ran the IBM setup utility,
> made sure it was in ok, then tried to see if the system would recognize
> it. I booted up in Slackware and tried to get it to recognize the card.
> Using ifconfig eth0, it says eth0: unknown interface. I then went over to
> the Digital web site and searched for linux drivers for it, and it sent me
> to a directory on their ftp server where the drivers for the card are
> located. In the file for Linux drivers, there's only a Readme file saying
> that the driver was included in the kernel starting with 1.1.61 and going
> up, along with a phone # to call for more info. Tried the phone #, it was
> disconnected/out of service. I can't get the kernel source on to my comp
> cuz all I can use are floppy's and sneaker net. A friend tried using cpio
> from another Linux box, but that didn't work either. Can anyone help me
> out? (Pls don't say, "Just throw it away...") E-mail me directly at:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] if possible (with Monolith going down, not sure how
> long this [EMAIL PROTECTED] thing will still be working...)
> Thanks in Advance,
> Rob
>
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