Re: HELP: eth0 not recognized
Regarding HELP: eth0 not recognized of 16:25 +0900 1998-01-30, David Iannucci wrote: I've got an ISA ethernet card that has E2000 printed on it, and so I've assumed it's an NE2000 compatible. There's a paper note taped on the inside of the machine that says that the ethernet card is IRQ 7, and I've tried booting from LILO with linux ether=7, but no go. I've tried any number of ways, but to no avail. When I boot under W95, however, the card works fine. Although I know practically nothing about hardware, I was under the impression that NE2000 compatible cards were very common and should definitely be seen by the default kernel. You probably need to specify the IO address also (as stated in another reply). The E2000 makes me suspect that the card is a cabletron card. The following is from the Ethernet HOWTO: 5.11. Cabletron Donald writes: `Yes, another one of these companies that won't release its programming information. They waited for months before actually confirming that all their information was proprietary, deliberately wasting my time. Avoid their cards like the plague if you can. Also note that some people have phoned Cabletron, and have been told things like `a D. Becker is working on a driver for linux' -- making it sound like I work for them. This is NOT the case.' If you feel like asking them why they don't want to release their low level programming info so that people can use their cards, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tell them that you are using Linux, and are disappointed that they don't support open systems. And no, the usual driver development kit they supply is useless. It is just a DOS object file that you are supposed to link against. Which you aren't allowed to even reverse engineer. 5.11.1. E10**, E10**-x, E20**, E20**-x Status -- Semi-Supported These are NEx000 almost-clones that are reported to work with the standard NEx000 drivers, thanks to a ctron-specific check during the probe. If there are any problems, they are unlikely to be fixed, as the programming information is unavailable. -- Joel Espy Klecker Debian GNU/Linux Developermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.espy.org/http://www.debian.org/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
HELP: eth0 not recognized
Please help! I've installed bo on my machine at work, and I want to start using it as my main workstation, but the kernel won't recognize my ethernet card. The machine is a Pentium-based machine made (apparently) by a company called Prime. I've got an ISA ethernet card that has E2000 printed on it, and so I've assumed it's an NE2000 compatible. There's a paper note taped on the inside of the machine that says that the ethernet card is IRQ 7, and I've tried booting from LILO with linux ether=7, but no go. I've tried any number of ways, but to no avail. When I boot under W95, however, the card works fine. Although I know practically nothing about hardware, I was under the impression that NE2000 compatible cards were very common and should definitely be seen by the default kernel. If anyone can give me any clues as to how to proceed with this, I'd be very grateful. I'm almost at wit's end on this. Oh, one more question: I've assumed that if the kernel recognizes the ether card, that eth0 interface will be created automatically and displayed when you do ifconfig. Is this the case? Or am I simply missing some software configuration that will cause the card to be seen? Thanks much IA, Dave -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: HELP: eth0 not recognized
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Iannucci) writes: I've got an ISA ethernet card that has E2000 printed on it, and so I've assumed it's an NE2000 compatible. There's a paper note taped on the inside of the machine that says that the ethernet card is IRQ 7, and I've tried booting from LILO with linux ether=7, but no go. I've tried any number of ways, but To make the NE2000 work, you have to specify the IO-address. There should be a jumper for this. You do see the kernel probing for the ne2000? Check with dmesg. The kernel shipped with bo has ne2000 as a module. Did you install the ne2000 module during installation? If not, then use modconf as root. more question: I've assumed that if the kernel recognizes the ether card, that eth0 interface will be created automatically and displayed when you do ifconfig. Is this the case? Or am Maybe you first have to assign a IP address to the card (see below). I also have alias eth0 ne in /etc/conf.modules. My /etc/init.d/network looks like this: #!/bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 ifconfig eth0 192.168.3.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 route add -net 192.168.3.0 Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
