On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Lee Komito wrote:
> to all,
>
> I have just installed Linux on an old Pentium75 machine - went fine,
> but I have had major problems with the SMC8000 ethernet card --
> RedHat Linux didn't recognize it on the first install. I have tried
> copying the net.cfg settings from the Win3.1 system (etherII, I/O
> 280, IRQ5) via linuxconf, but that doesn't seem to make any
> difference. So I have Linux installed, but no internet connectivity,
> and I can't get Linux to recognized the ethernet card that works fine
> for my Win3.1 connection to the local network.
>
You say SMC8000 but i for one have never heard of an 8000 card,
normaly it would be 8003 which is an old 8 bits card, the irq and I/O
address suggest that also.
If it is one of tose cards you need the wd driver, modprobe wd to
load the driver.
To have it loaded automaticly at bootime enter a line into
/etc/conf.mofules;
alias eth0 wd
That will of course only work if you use kerneld or kmod to autoload
modules, which a normal install does anyway.
> Clearly I am doing something stupid and/or wrong. Suggestions greatly
> appreciated....
>
> regards,
> Lee Komito
>
>
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Regards Richard
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