On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, John Marr wrote:
>Greetings:
>
> I finally decided today would be the day that I try linking two
>computers together and start building that network I have been dreaming
>of. I had no problems on my 486 setting up an old NE2000 linksys card,
>but on my main machine I put in a LNE100TX Linksys 10/100 card. It
>works great with windows 98, but when I reboot into redhat 6.0, the card
>is not found. I tried to configure the card with: ifconfig eth0
>192.168.42.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.42.255 but I
>recieve a number of errors that the card is not found. I have made sure
>that network card support is compiled into the kernel, and I am going to
>read through the ethernet-HOWTO as soon as I eat dinner tonight. Does
>kernel 2.2.5-15 need to have a special module compiled into it in order
>for the network card to work?
You say you made sure the cards driver is compiled into the kernel,
this suggests you have made your own kernel, is that correct.?
If so which driver did you choose.
2.2.5-15 the kernel supplied with redhat-6.0 has all the drivers one
needs for 99% of configuration wishes mostly compiled as kernel
modules, that meaning you have to load the module first, yes there is
automatic loading support which quite possably cannot load the cards
driver because there is no entry in /etc/conf.modules for that driver.
I took a look at /usr/doc/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO with states that
LinkSys uses ne2000 compatable chips, now the question is, is your
card a PCI or ISA, this makes all the differance when choosing the
correct module.
Now i will need to guess here, however here is what i would do;
Boot with the origanal kernel 2.2.5-15 and use the origanal kernel
modules, i presume you have not recompiled a kernel and over written
the old modules, if you have the chances that the old origanal module
you need could still be intact, i am presuming this is true.
If not, you could reinstall the org, kernel modules and the kernel
from your distribution source.
Login as root.
edit /etc/conf.modules and add a line as follows.
alias eth0 ne2k-pci # For a pci
alias eth0 ne2000 io=0xXXX # Where XXX is the port address for an ISA
card.
now try ifconfig again as you wrote it above. The modules should get
loaded automaticly, if not try another driver, take a look at
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/net there are several for ne2000 compatable
cards and dont forget to alter the alias in conf.modules.
There is a www page to look at concernig your type of card.
http://www.linksys.com/support/solution/nos/linux.htm
O yes, if the card is a PCI then there should be no problem at all at
boottime providingyour BIOS is setup properly for PCI support, i
presume this to be true as you say it works with widows.
cat /proc/pci should reveal if the card is a PCI and seen at boottime.
Another thing is after issuing a command concerning the ethernet
card, check out /var/log/messages or even dmesg, that might give some
hints as to what is going wrong or is missing.
>Any help or ideas is appriciated...
If you cant get the answer, let us know.
>
>John
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Regards Richard
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