How about going to Fedora Core 2, which is a Red Hat offspring but is being
brought up to date, maintained, etc., and is more likely to recognize your
card? If you want a DVD of it and don't have a high speed line, you or
anyone else on the list who writes to me is welcome to it.

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kevin
Toppenberg
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 12:49 PM
To: Hardhats Sourceforge
Subject: [Hardhats-members] Linux question: Detecting ethernet card


Linux question here.  I know this is not a linux form,
but you all often have the answer.

I inherited a PC at the office that I decided to
switch from Windows ME to Linux Hat 9, with plans to
make a web server out of it.  I thought I might even
put my test VistA system on it so that I could work
with it during the upcoming WorldVistA conference.

I didn't pay too much attention during the redhat
installation process.  I just accepted all the
defaults.

The problem is that it is not properly detecting the
network card.  I put a second ethernet card in it that
I had laying around, and I can't get that to work
either.

I have done some searching on the linux boards, but
couldn't find my answer.

Here is the output from the PCI bus (lspci)
(I am having to hand type out the following because I
have to email from a second computer)

>lspci
...
01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Acton Technology
Corporation SMC2-1211TX (rev 10)
01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor
Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)


>lspci -v -s 01:0b

01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor
Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
       Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL
8029(AS)
       Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
       I/O ports at 2420 [disabled] [size=32]


When I run redhat-config-network-druid I get an option
to choose what kind of ethernet card I have.  But I
can't seem to find a way for it to probe the card and
detect the correct settings.  The closest I can come
to this card is "Realtek RTL8129"  The other two
options are "Realtek RTL-8139C+ " and "Realtek
RTL-8139 SMC EZ Card".

It then wants to know what IRQ, MEM, IO, IO1, IO2,
DMA0, DMA1 to use.  I thought that modern devices were
plug and play.  Is this only a windows thing?  I
thought my days of parselling out IRQ's were past.

Anyone have any ideas how to fix this, or links to
where I might find an answer?

Thanks
Kevin



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