Hi Jason, Many thanks for your help. I m trying actually to recompile my kernel (redhat 4.2..already installed) and specify support for PCI network and Isa NE 2000 cards. I dont know if I m doing this the right way: I went in /usr/src/linux, executed the comand make menuconfig and got a board with many options with brackets <> in front of them (as you can see I m new to it, But no problem..it s my own PC and as crucial it could be, the damages are welcomed ;p). I went in the Networking options and saw that both PCI network and Isa NE 2000 cards were already selected. Well, I assume they re already supported by my kernel. By the way, I was reading the kernel How TO and got confuse cause they mainly xplain how to compile the kernel (which is not my case..mine is already compiled..I just need to recompile it for eth0 support). The confusion was mainly strong when it came to choose whether I should follow all the steps of compiling the kernel (make config, make mrproper, make dep...etc) or just go to make config only?? As for patching the source code for the kernel: How do I do that. How can I know that the source code is already on my system? Where to find it and why should I patch it ? Thanks for time and consideration >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:45:12 EDT >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Thanks for your help on redhat ppp mailing list >X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 170 >Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archive/latest/145 >X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-URL: http://www.redhat.com > >Hey, I've done this.... > >Yes, I initially installed redhat 4.2 on my system, and also purchased two of >the Linksys EtherPCI Lan II Cards. These particular PCI cards are clones of >the old NE2000 ISA network cards ( apparently that's pretty common for the >less inexpensive cards ). Specifically they have the winbond chip on there >circuit boards. This winbond series is not automatically detected by the >Redhat 4.2 or 5.0 kernel. ( I'm talking from experience). So you will have to >recompile the kernel and explicitly specify support for both the PCI network >cards and the ISA NE2000 cards. > >Use the textual version of make config, not the X utility. The X utility ( I >don't remember what it's called). doesn't give the options necessary for >doing this. > >If you are using 4.2 and not redhat 5.0, The source code for the kernel will >also have to be patched in order to support the winbond chip. Redhat 5.0 >source code for the kernel already had the patch applied, but I still needed >to recompile before it worked. > >Forgive me, but all my documentation for this is at the office, so I will have >to send another mail tommorrow, which will contain the URL for this patch. >This URL also explains the situation a little more in depth. > >Jason Hoffman >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Please don't judge me by my ISP ) > >*************************************************************************** *** >* >In a message dated 06/18/1998 11:33:23 AM Central Daylight Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > ><< Hi, > I am trying to find if my EtherPCI Lan Card II of linksys is supported by > redhat. During install of redhat I ve hardly tried to make it detected by > my redhat 4.2 partition (dev/hda1), but it asked for the right I/O and IRQ. > The problem is that, my Pnp card, successfully installed on my win95 > partition (/dev/hda1)..I do not find anywhere any I/O and IRQ for it. > On win95, I found the one for my com ports of modem and mouse..and no one > for my Ethetnet card. > I went in netcfg>addnew Interface, selected Ethernet, gave an IP to it and > instead of DHCP or BootP, I ve manually entered TcP IP..but I guess that s > not the right way of doing it ..cause there s no I/O or IRQ assigned and > even if I do ifconfig eth0, I got message "No such Device". > > Could you pls help me for that.. > > > Thanks so much > Sony Lloyd Ponton > 5136 De Gaspe > Montreal, QC > H2T-1z9 >> > > >-- > PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! >http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe" as the Subject. > > Sony Lloyd Ponton 5136 De Gaspe Montreal, QC H2T-1z9 Tel: (514)279-1921 Email adress: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
