Well here are a few commands to run to see if Mandrake sees the card and
is going to have a chance in hell of using it.
[eric@ericekong eric]$ cat /etc/modules.conf | grep eth
alias eth0 3c59x
That machine has a 3Com card in it. So your 3c59x may read something
completely different. If it's there, that's a very good sign.
But this right here is the real test. Does your NIC have an IRQ?
[eric@ericekong eric]$ cat /proc/interrupts | grep eth
11: 829318 XT-PIC eth0
If you see eth of any kind there, your card has an IRQ and merely needs
to be configured.
You can then configure the card via HardDrake. I'd suggest that since
it's very simple. Once that's done, open DrakConf and go through and
configure the network for the card.
After all that's done, one last command would be ifconfig. (If you're
not root, you'll have to use the path. /sbin/ifconfig)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:44:04:89
inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:60878 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:62667 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:586 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:7 Base address:0xe800
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:69 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:69 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
That will tell you your IP address for your NIC. If you have more then
one NIC, then you'd have eth1, eth2 and so on.
Hope that comes in hand.
tdh
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