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by **Frank Sweetse** » Wed, 16 Jul 1997 04:00:00

> I don't manage to get an old Digital DEPCA Ethernet card
> to work under Redhat Linux. The card (half length version)
> works under DOS and Win95 with settings IRQ 5, 0x300, 0xD000.

> I tried already append="ether=5,0x300,0xD000,eth0" as well
> as append="ether=5,0x300,eth0" in my lilo.conf, but to no
> avail.

> Is the syntax a little different, or am I forgetting some-
> thing else. If someone can shed some light on this, I would
> be very grateful.

Have you recompiled the kernel to explicitly include support for this card?
Otherwise, you'll have to set up the module parameters, as redhat includes
support for all network cards as modules in their default install.

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by **Paul Russel** » Tue, 22 Jul 1997 04:00:00

> I don't manage to get an old Digital DEPCA Ethernet card
> to work under Redhat Linux. The card (half length version)
> works under DOS and Win95 with settings IRQ 5, 0x300, 0xD000.

> I tried already append="ether=5,0x300,0xD000,eth0" as well
> as append="ether=5,0x300,eth0" in my lilo.conf, but to no
> avail.

The default RedHat kernel has the various network card drivers as
modules, which get inserted on demand. You only use the kernel
arguments for drivers which are compiled into the kernel.

There is a kerneld GUI configuration program in the RedHat toolbox.
You need to create an alias for eth0 to "depca" (which is the module
you want it to load for eth0), and you may need an "options" line for
eth0 to specify the irq and io (see the modules section in the NET
HOWTO).

Hope that helps,
Paul.
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