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Hello, we have RH 6.2 & installed a ISA Ether16 LAN card after we
already installed the OS. We turned off Plug & Play via the card's
setup utility, which says it is i/o base address: 300 and interrupt
number 3.  When we re-boot the machine, we can not even ping: bash:
ping: command not found
When we do ifconfig -a we get:
lo Link encap: Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTO:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
When the system is shutting down, it says:
ne.c no PCI cards found. use "io=0xNNN" value for ISA cards
How do we designate the io="0xNNN"?

When the system is starting up, it says:
Bringing up interface lo
Bringing up eth0 insmod: /lib/modules/2.2..(too fast to read)..
Delaying eth0 initialization

We are still booting from the boot disk that created the OS
installation; do we need to make a new disk since we added an ethernet
card or is there a way to add the card without re-installing the OS?

Cheers,
rt

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Quote:>Hello, we have RH 6.2 & installed a ISA Ether16 LAN card after we
>already installed the OS. We turned off Plug & Play via the card's
>setup utility, which says it is i/o base address: 300 and interrupt
>number 3.  When we re-boot the machine, we can not even ping: bash:
>ping: command not found

That has nothing to do with the card; you don't have ping installed/in your
path if that's the case.  Though it is a bit strange to not have it
installed as part of a default.

Quote:>When we do ifconfig -a we get:
>lo Link encap: Local Loopback
>inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
>UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTO:3924 Metric:1
>RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>When the system is shutting down, it says:
>ne.c no PCI cards found. use "io=0xNNN" value for ISA cards
>How do we designate the io="0xNNN"?

You should be able to use modconf (modconf is a standard Linux utility,
isn't it?) to create the correct entries for your Ethernet card.

Quote:>When the system is starting up, it says:
>Bringing up interface lo
>Bringing up eth0 insmod: /lib/modules/2.2..(too fast to read)..
>Delaying eth0 initialization

run `dmesg | less' to read all of this stuff after boot time.

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On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 13:07:54 GMT, William Wueppelmann

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Quote:>That has nothing to do with the card; you don't have ping installed/in your
>path if that's the case.  Though it is a bit strange to not have it
>installed as part of a default.

>>When we do ifconfig -a we get:
>>lo Link encap: Local Loopback
>>inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
>>UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTO:3924 Metric:1
>>ne.c no PCI cards found. use "io=0xNNN" value for ISA cards
>>How do we designate the io="0xNNN"?

Edit /etc/conf.modules using your favorite text editor,
naturally.  Somewhere in that file, add the lines
  options ne io=0x300 irq=3
  alias eth0 ne
...no need to reboot either, just run /sbin/init.d/network start (that's
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start for Redhat folks.)  Of course, this won't
work unless the card is truly NE2000 compatible--most cards that claim to
be are, but there have been problems with very cheap clones.

Quote:>You should be able to use modconf (modconf is a standard Linux utility,
>isn't it?) to create the correct entries for your Ethernet card.

Nope, no modconf here in SuSE 6.4.  vi and conf.modules, OTOH, are in
every installation.

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I would guess your system is trying to use the module for your
previous ethernet card.   You need an entry in /etc/conf.modules
of the form
alias eth0  XXXX
where XXXX is the appropriate module for your card.   You also
need the module for this card to be in /lib/modules/<some_no>/net
where it will have the form XXXX.o.

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