ok i'll try what you suggestesing also, i have a software accompanied with the NIC and
i have set it to jumperless already with i/o 0x280 and irq 9, this setting also work
fine with windows (after reconfiguring it many times).
Thanks =) I'll infrom you guys later when i re-configure again the linux...
jackson
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On 6/24/00 at 8:26 AM Federico Sevilla III wrote:
>On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 at 16:10, Jackson Ching wrote:
>>I have installed RedHat 6.2, But it was not able to detect the network
>>card (e2000plus) which is NE2000 compatible daw. how must i configure my
>>linux so that it can detect the NIC and be able to use it? Thanks!
>
>I hope this reply is not too late. I also recently installed a no-brand
>PNP ISA NIC that was supposedly NE2000 compatible. The computer (with the
>NIC already) was originally running Windows 95 OSR2 and I set it up with
>Linux instead to serve as an e-mail and Internet gateway for a small LAN.
>It's proven to be much more efficient and reliable than a previous WinGate
>setup on a Celeron 400 running Windows98. Hahaha! Go go go Linux!
>
>Anyway, enough with the historical sales pitch. Because I had Windows
>previously installed, I copied the address information of the NIC (IO and
>IRQ) and then tried to plug them into the module's parameters, but to no
>avail. The NIC wouldn't work just like that. Here's what worked:
>
>1. Compiled latest kernel with NE2000 support as a module - you probably
>won't have to compile the latest kernel, and AFAIK RedHat's stock has
>NE2000 as a module. However, I wanted this box to have the latest security
>updates, including as far as the kernel is concerned. Plus I didn't want
>the bloat, it was a 486. So I compiled a streamlined kernel. I compiled
>NE2000 support as a module versus built into the kernel because I needed
>to be able to set the NIC up via the Linux ISA PNP tools before loading
>the module with the proper parameters for the IO and IRQ.
>
>2. Installed the Linux ISA PNP tools and read the PNP HOWTO. For RedHat
>6.2 you've got an RPM called isapnptools-1.21b-1.i386.rpm in
>$cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/. That's what you need installed. The HOWTO you can
>find on the 'Net. :-)
>
>3. Cold boot without touching the NIC (meaning no attempts to load it or
>anything like that), and using the new kernel I built.
>
>4. Ran pnpdump, redirecting output to /etc/isapnp.conf
>
>5. Edited /etc/isapnp.conf. You may have to read the man pages a bit to
>feel comfortable with this file. I uncommented some of the lines that
>pnpdump by default leaves commented. This set the parameters for isapnp to
>use to know which card to talk to, and what addresses to set. I do not
>know if pnpdump recommends addresses with conflicts. In my case it did
>not. A little trial and error did the trick.
>
>6. Use settings in isapnp.conf (after testing, of course) to know what to
>tell the module to load, then edit /etc/conf.modules adding the line:
>
>alias eth0 ne irq=y,io=zxzzz
>
>(Please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not sure if it's a comma or a space
>in between io and irq)
>
>7. Make sure /etc/sysconfig/network and
>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 are properly configured. You can
>use the graphical tool to set these up for you, but just in case you can't
>or don't want to use a graphical tool, here are the parameters to set (as
>is in my setup), adjust to your own settings:
>
>/etc/sysconfig/network:
>NETWORKING=yes
>FORWARD_IPV4="yes"
>HOSTNAME=linux-server.tlc
>GATEWAYDEV=""
>GATEWAY=""
>
>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:
>DEVICE=eth0
>BOOTPROTO=none
>ONBOOT=yes
>BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
>NETWORK=192.168.0.0
>NETMASK=255.255.255.0
>IPADDR=192.168.0.100
>USERCTL=no
>
>8. Cold boot. Hope things work. I noticed that warm reboots cause isapnp
>to cough up some warnings. I think I'm making it set something that can
>only be set after a cold boot. I'm not so sure. Cold boots get my system
>booting up very smoothly, though, and my NIC works.
>
>Good luck! :)
>
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