On Fri, 26 May 2000, Jon Dowd wrote about, Installing a new Network Interface Card:
> Hello,
> I am running RedHat 6.0 and during the installation my Network
> Interface Card was automatically detected and had been working great.
>
> It stopped working and I have a new card, but NO IDEA how to install
> it and have it recognized by the operating system.
>
> The new card is a Realtek RTL8029.
You need the ne2k-pci driver.
Documents;
/usr/doc/*HOWTO*/Ethernet-HOWTO
However if you are using a distribution kernel the one you installed from
the distribution source, then there should be support for your card in
module form.
To use it you would as root do;
ifconfig eth0 down
rmmod old_driver
You need to edit /etc/conf.modules or modules.conf whichever you have and
change the line which starts like.
alias eth0 xxx.o
If there is a line saying
options xxx io=0xXXX
regarding the eth0 driver, comment it out.
add;
alias eth0 ne2k-pci
You should now be able to initialise the card with;
modprobe ne2k-pci
lsmod should now show ne2k-pci in the list.
To configure the card its probably best to run the redhat init script.
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S10network
If on the otherhand you have a custom compiled kernel you will need to
compile another kernel with support for your card.
>
> Can you tell me how to do it, or point me in the direction where I
> might look?
>
> Thanks, Jon Dowd
>
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