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Hello all,

I've been running my 300MHz NEC PentiumII as a Win98 box on my
home LAN behind a IPChains firewall using RH6.1.  Every thing
was rosey...

I just turned the Win98 box into Dual boot with RH 7.0 on a separate
drive.  The RH 7.0 install was painless (workstation install with
my choice of packages), however, my nice little AsanteFast 10/100 NIC
which worked so well under Win98 doesn't want to play nice under RH.

I know, I know... It ain't on the HW compatibility list!  But the
NIC uses a recognized DEC chipset so I'm hopeful...

Anyway, the card is recognized, eth0 can be configured and
shows up with ifconfig.  The tulip kernel module is loaded
(actually old_tulip)... everything should be cool.  But No...

I get no traffic thru the card... no lights on the hub no lights
in the card, nothing.  No error messages that I can find either.

The only problem I can find is that the built-in USB hub and the
NIC are using the same IRQ.  Rebooting into Win98 shows that
they use the same IRQ there too... I don't have and USB devices
so maybe I've simply luckily avoided doom thus far....

I couldn't set the IRQ of the card (or the USB Hub) from within
Windows and unfortunately it didn't work from within RH using
"ifconfig eth0 irq xx".  I diddled around in the BIOS but I couldn't
a way to set IRQs in there either... I could only "reserve" them.
But if I reserve the IRQ being used by both USB & NIC, then both
just get set to the same new available value.

So, My Question... Has anyone gotten an AsanteFast 10/100 card
to work under RH7.0 or am I just spinning my wheels for no reason?
Does the IRQ issue sound like the problem to those of you in the
know?  Any suggestions on how to clear up the conflict?

Many thanks for any info you can provide.....

Regards,

Todd
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Quote:> Hello all,

> I've been running my 300MHz NEC PentiumII as a Win98 box on my
> home LAN behind a IPChains firewall using RH6.1.  Every thing
> was rosey...

> I just turned the Win98 box into Dual boot with RH 7.0 on a separate
> drive.  The RH 7.0 install was painless (workstation install with
> my choice of packages), however, my nice little AsanteFast 10/100 NIC
> which worked so well under Win98 doesn't want to play nice under RH.

> I know, I know... It ain't on the HW compatibility list!  But the
> NIC uses a recognized DEC chipset so I'm hopeful...

> Anyway, the card is recognized, eth0 can be configured and
> shows up with ifconfig.  The tulip kernel module is loaded
> (actually old_tulip)... everything should be cool.  But No...

> I get no traffic thru the card... no lights on the hub no lights
> in the card, nothing.  No error messages that I can find either.

A few diagnostic suggestions:

1) What do you get when you type "ifconfig eth0"? It SHOULD be something
   like this:

   eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:C6:F9:3B:BA  
             inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
             UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
             RX packets:99072652 errors:35306 dropped:0 overruns:35306 frame:0
             TX packets:107274438 errors:31 dropped:0 overruns:4 carrier:27
             collisions:0

   If you don't get anything, it means that the interface isn't active.
   You can try running ifconfig manually (with something like "ifconfig
   eth0 192.168.1.1" to bring the interface up with an IP address of
   192.168.1.1). If the entry appears but there's no IP address, then
   you could try the same (possibly preceded by an "ifconfig eth0 down"
   command to bring it down).

2) What do you get when you type "route"? You should see at least one
   entry linked to eth0. If not, you can try adding one with a command
   like "route add -net 192.168.1.0/24".

3) You could try the newer Tulip driver. Although the Tulip and many of
   its clones are good, there are so many of them that the driver
   situation is rather chaotic -- what works with one board may not work
   with another.

Quote:> The only problem I can find is that the built-in USB hub and the
> NIC are using the same IRQ.  Rebooting into Win98 shows that
> they use the same IRQ there too... I don't have and USB devices
> so maybe I've simply luckily avoided doom thus far....

In theory, PCI devices can share IRQs, so this shouldn't be a problem.
It might be, though. You could try disabling USB support in your kernel.
I believe RH 7 ships with USB support as modules, so you should be able
to disable it by using the RH 7 hardware configuration tool (the name of
which eludes me at the moment).

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