Well the thing in Linux, is that if there are problems with an IRQ conflict, your hardware is not going to work. I ran into problems like this with one of my machines. In Windows, if there are IRQ conflicts, it will still manage to find the address for the hardware and send the correct information to it. Linux requires that you have a real IRQ for each piece of hardware. If your motherboards supports shared conflicts, make sure there are only two per IRQ, and they aren't something real serious. So, does your NIC have an IRQ? [timh@r2d2 timh]$ cat /proc/interrupts | grep eth 3: 263857807 XT-PIC eth0 That means, that my NIC, which is eth0, has an IRQ of 3. If you see that, you have an IRQ. Is it recognized so the correct modules can be loaded? [timh@r2d2 timh]$ cat /etc/modules.conf | grep eth0 alias eth0 3c59x That means that eth0, is actually an alias for 3c59x, which is the module that will be used. If you see those two things, then you need to configure it. You can do this via HardDrake. Going into the section for Network Device Cards, try and find your NIC. If it's in there, select it, and then run the config tool. There's a button for it there. Go through those steps. You can do this if you don't see your NIC displayed in /etc/modules.conf as well. If you've done all of that, you'll need to tell it how to acquire it's IP address. From DHCP, or will you assign one for it? You can use DrakConf, and configure the IP/Internet information there. At that point, log in as root, and type this command at a prompt. /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart It will shutdown all the network devices, and then restart them. If it's trying get a DHCP address that may take a little bit of time for it to gather. I say to do it that way, because you know if it comes back and gives you a weird error message, and you can go on from there. So start out making sure the NIC has an IRQ. If it doesn't you need to fix that first. You may try moving it to another PCI slots on your Motherboard, and then try again. I use DLink cards, 3Com cards, and NetGear cards. The DLinks cost me $20, they're 10/100, and they work beautifully. The 3Com cards are more widely supported though. Hope that helps! tdh -- T. Holmes ----------------- UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------- "Real Men Use Vi!" Uptime: -------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:12pm up 4 days, 4:36, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Hi All, | | I am in the process of building a 3 computer network which is as | follows: | Tower acting as server | a desktop as a workstation | and a laptop workstation needs to be removable from network | | That said now the laptop has a problem the linksys EtherFast 10/100 is | not reginized hear a long and short beep when inserting. | Did some checking at Linksys web site,they say to get it to work have to | do | some compiling. heck I can just barely get things done as is. | Have tons of books on Linux,but they all talk way above me. | Does anybody know of a network card that is *no* problem?? | So far I can ping the tower at Ip address and dns. Can ping the desktop | at its IP address but not its dns. | | Hope somebody can lend a hand (not geek) | Thanks | Robert F. Trettel | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ------------------------------------------------------------------
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