Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Unknown NIC, need configuration utility

[Mikhail Kovalenko <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Chris W wrote:
> 
> It started up and showed the card at 0x300 and IRQ 9, but then kept
> locking up.  So I'm going to try it on a network connection, if I just
> knew what it's set to I think I would be happy with that.

It's likely that your card is already set to those parameters. Try
setting them in your /etc/modules.conf. It would be something like

alias eth0 ne2
options ne2 io=0x300 irq=9

Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt, especially
parts about ne.c module.

Here are some possible ranges (from
/usr/src/linux-2.4.2/drivers/net/ne2.c):

/* From the D-Link ADF file: */
static unsigned int dlink_addresses[4]= {0x300, 0x320, 0x340, 0x360};
static int dlink_irqs[8] = {3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 14,
15};                                                                

> >
> > Alternatively, just buy a new card :)
> 
> Oh, I did try that this week! :^)  A couple $15 Linksys NC100 PCI
> cards from Office Depot.  I could *not* get them to work with E-smith
> even with much finagling.  RedHat 7.0 install disk wouldn't see them
> either.

I have a LinkSys LNE100TX (from Office Depot for $15) and it works
beautifully in RedHat 7. It seems that LinkSys has two product lines
that look and feel the same but work differently, which explains why
some people love their products and other people hate them. I own
several of their products that came in *blue* (not orange) boxes and
have *never* had any problems.

BTW I still have a couple of unopened 3Com PCI 10/100 NICs for
sale/trade. If interested, please contact me off the list.

> (According to the tulip.o docs, you can compile this module,
> but the gcc that comes with RedHat 7.0 is "experimental" and broken.
> You have to use kgcc, which I didn't have on my test 7.0 box.  Btw, is
> that KDE's gcc?)

It doesn't seem so:

[EMAIL:PROTECTED misha]$ kgcc --help
Usage: kgcc [options] file...
Options:
   . . .
Report bugs to EMAIL:PROTECTED
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Cheers,
-- MK

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