Identifying an "anonymous" NIC is a tough problem. Some NICs are well
labelsd, so I'm inclined to think it isn't a 3Com or an HP, say. Others are
rougher to classify.
No sure procedure, but here are a few things to try;
1. Boot the system with a recent Red Hat install disk. RH has the best NIC
autodetector I've found. (Even though I *never* install RH, I keep a RH
install disk in my troubeshooting kit for this one reason.)
2. Put it in a regular Linux system, whatever distribution you are using,
and work your way through the modules, modprobe'ing them one by one, until
you get lucky. This will work if you have a card that uses a module that
autoprobes for IRQ and IO port.
3. Take a chance (Advance to Boardwalk; pay the property owner twice the
usual rent), and bet that an unknown isa-bus card is NE2000 compatible. This
one does require parameters, so you'll have to do a bunch, varying the irq=
and io= lines over the likely range (mostly the irq= one; the odds are high
that an NE2000 is set for io=0x300).
4. Same principle for unknown pci-bus cards, except try ne2k and tulip.
This isn't great advice, I'll admit, but it's all I've got. If you could get
the MAC address of the card, there's a database somewhere that associated
the first 4 digits with a manfacturer ... but if you could read the MAC
address, you could use the card.
At 10:48 PM 5/23/00 -0400, David Aikema wrote:
>Basically I've been having quite a time trying to get my network everywhere
card to work under linux with absolutely no success. Others have also
encountered this same problem judging by the data returned from searches on
the internet.
>
>I am beginning to think that the only way to get beyond this problem is
somply to replace the network card. I talked to my sysadmin at school and
he offered me several spare cards that had accumulated over the years....
currently I have 2 10baseT cards and two 10/100 cards.
>
>The only card that actually included a driver disk was one of the fast
ethernet cards... upon which was the label 'Acer ALN-320'. Has anyone had
any success in getting this card running under linux?
>
>Alternatively... how can I identify the other cards without any really
clear, distinct labels? there's enough different numbers, etc. on those
things that i am not sure which ones to look at.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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