Re: Linux cannot find NE-2000 network card

1998-04-25 Thread The Thought Assassin
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Hans Ehrbar wrote: But when I boot the machine it says: Network is unreachable Can you send the outputs of ifconfig and route -n These will show what your situation/problem is. 7~he 7~hought /|ssassin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Linux cannot find NE-2000 network card

1998-04-24 Thread Hans Ehrbar
I just got through the ordeal of installing debian linux from floppies on an older computer, but linux cannot find my network card. When installing the device drivers, the menu first told me that I did not have any network cards, i.e., there was a - sign in front of the line for my 3C509 card.

Re: Linux cannot find NE-2000 network card

1998-04-24 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, loading device 'eth0'... eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 a0 24 e7 06 66, IRQ 3 3c509.c:1.07 6/15/95 [EMAIL PROTECTED] But when I boot the machine it says: Network is unreachable It sounds like your gateway hasn't been configured. Have you configured your gateway

Linux cannot find NE-2000 network card

1998-04-24 Thread Hans Ehrbar
Thanks for the quick response, Ossama. I did configure the network and I do have a file /etc/init.d/network which has my IPADDR and NETMASK etc. but I haven't found any files with any of the information about the network card specified during installation. Where should it be? On Fri, 24 Apr

Re: Linux cannot find NE-2000 network card

1998-04-24 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Hans, Thanks for the quick response, Ossama. No problem. :) but I haven't found any files with any of the information about the network card specified during installation. Where should it be? I'm not sure what you mean so I'll try to answer several questions: - If you mean during

Re: Linux cannot find NE-2000 network card

1998-04-24 Thread Gilbert Laycock
(The subject line is a bit misleading, don't you think?) Hans loading device 'eth0'... Hans eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 a0 24 e7 06 66, IRQ 3 Hans 3c509.c:1.07 6/15/95 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hans But when I boot the machine it says: Network is unreachable Is your network

Re: Linux cannot find NE-2000 network card

1998-04-24 Thread dg
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Hans Ehrbar wrote: Thanks for the quick response, Ossama. I did configure the network and I do have a file /etc/init.d/network which has my IPADDR and NETMASK etc. but I haven't found any files with any of the information about the network card specified during

Linux cannot find NE-2000 network card

1998-04-24 Thread Hans Ehrbar
Thanks to Ossama's and Gilbert's advice, I could fix my problem by adding a line consisting of the string 3c509 to the /etc/modules file. Apparently the install program never wrote this string into the file because I had failed to install a network card altogether when I originally built the

Re: Linux cannot find NE-2000 network card

1998-04-24 Thread Roberto Magana
From the Ethernet-HOWTO 3.6. Problems with 3Com cards Problem: The 3c503 picks IRQ N, but this is needed for some other device which needs IRQ N.