On Wednesday 06 February 2002 07:32, Hall, Michael A wrote: > Thanks for all the input. Apologies for the text and line length > issue. I hope this message is improved. > > I tried the various suggestions with varying success: > > 1.tried using rtl8139 with 8390 without success (same signature as > before) 2.tried HOSTS0 eth0_IPADDR ... instead of eth1_IPADDR without > success 3.tried 8139too with 8390 and finally successfully configured > both NICS
Good deal! I wasn't aware of a card that would work _only_ with the 8139too module ... I'll make note of that! They're great cards in any case. > lsmod shows: > 8390 (unused) > natsemi (used by 1) > 8139too (used by 1) > pci-scan (used by 0 [natsemi]) > > Does this imply that 8390 is unnecessary? It would. > It seems that SHIFT-PGUP only works to scroll the screen for kernel > messages until I log in. Is that normal? Nope, but it won't work if there is not enough text to scroll on the screen and it only caches so much text at a time (ie... it will only remember "x" amount of old information). > Now I can proceed to try to get the Win machine applications to > access the outside world (mail, http, etc.). Is it necessary to > enable these within network.conf? Nope, that stuff should work fine. There are some services, like IRC for file sharing, netmeeting, and others that require "helper" modules. You would set these in the "modules" file if you need any of them. > Again, thanks for the input everyone. I really appreciate it. NP -- ~Lynn Avants aka Guitarlynn guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net http://leaf.sourceforge.net If linux isn't the answer, you've probably got the wrong question! _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
