On Sat, 04 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The network card I am using is not listed in the "provided list of
> network cards" in Red Hat Linux 6.0. Can any one please help me how to
> install and configure my network card. The card I am using is NDC 10/100
> Fast Eathernet PCI Adapter.
The best thing to do here is to read /usr/doc/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO
It sounds like you have a so called "clone" card, there are different ways of
finding out how to attach it on your system.
I would firstly place the card into the computer and simply boot into linux.
After logging in do;
cat /proc/pci
That should result in a return text "something" like the following which is
from a 3com card.
Bus 0, device 14, function 0:
Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 48).
Medium devsel. IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=10.
I/O at 0xe800 [0xe801].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe9000000 [0xe9000000].
Of course your BIOS must be setup correctly for PCI.
If you get something like the above you are more than half way, by that i mean
all you now need to do is find out which driver is needed.
In the above case the 3c59x driver is needed.
To attach the driver the command modprobe is used, a small note here, the
kernel and modules supplied with redhat 6.0 contain all ethernet options, they
are modules, so modprobe is used to attach the driver.
modprobe 3c59x
ifconfig eth0 up
now ifconfig should show more information letting you see its been attached,
all you have to do now is add routes.
route add default eth0
will send all traffic out on eth0.
Of course the above is an "example" HOWTO, you results will be different, but
will give a pointer towards the cards needed driver.
Now anoher way to discover which driver is needed is, look at the card itself
or its technical documentation (if any) and take a note of the chip numbers
and markings, that will give an indication of which driver is needed.
Another way would be to boot into windows (if thats a possablity) and see what
windows says about the card.
I could go on and on but i think its better you try the above first and then
get back to us with the details, in between time someone might even send a
mail here saying they have one of those cards and tell you what to do.
There is yet another way, use netscape's search button type in NDC 10/100
You will get a lot of addresses, thats what i tryed, It looks like a NE clone
to me, but that you will see from the chip numbers and the cat /proc/pci
command.
Good luck.
> Thank you
>
> Abjin
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