Sorry. Forgot to mention that I installed Mandrake 7.1. There is no other OS on the machine. The machine is a dual PIII Xeon 833 with 512MB ram and 18GB SCSI hard disk. > ---------- > From: Liaw, Andy > Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 4:54 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: network card configuration problem > > Hi all, > > Can anyone help with the following problem with ethernet card? Much > thanks in advance. > > Basically, the auto-detect does not recognize the card correctly. Even > after setting it to the correct card in DrakConf, at reboot it still > revert to the wrong card. > > We recently purchased a Compaq SP750 workstation with an "Integrated Intel > PRO/100+ Management Adapter" with an Intel chip set 82559. > [DarkConf]----[Hardware Configuration] setup shows it as 82557 and try to > map it to "IBM i82557 10/100 PCI Ethernet Adapter". Here are the things > that I have tried & some information that hopefully will help: > > ------------------ > 1) Startup Messages: > > Bringing up Interface lo [OK] > Bringing up Interface eth0 insmod: > /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/net/eepro100.o : invalid parameter parm_io > Delaying eth0 initialization [FAILED] > Binding to NIS domain [FAILED] > > ---------------- > > 2) # ifconfig > > < only shows lo > > --------------- > > 3) script written to manually configure the drivers for the network card: > > networksetup.sh: > insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/net/eepro100.o > /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S10network reload > /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S17ypbind start > /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S80sendmail start > /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S95innd start > > # /networksetup.sh > bringin up device eth0 [OK] > shutting down device eth0 [OK] > bringin up device eth0 [OK] > shutting down device lo [OK] > bringin up device lo [OK] > binding to NIS domain [FAILED] > Starting Sendmail: > Starting INND system [OK] > > --------------------- > 4) # ifconfig > > eth0 Link encap: Ethernet Hwaddr: xxxxxxxxxx > inet addr: 54.xx.xx.xx Bcast: 54.xx.xx.254 > Mask:255.255.255.0 > ..... > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packet: 145 ......... > TX packet: 0 ............. > ..... > Interrupt: 18 Base address: 0xb000 > > lo ..... > -------------- > > 5) # ifup eth0 > SIOADDRT: File Exist > SIOADDRT: network unreachable > > ---------------- > > 6) # route add default gw 54.xx.xx.254 dev eth0 > network unreachable > > --------------- > > 7) # route > > Destination Gateway GenMask Flag Use iface > xyz.somewhere.com * 255.255.255.255 UH eth0 > xyz.somewhere.com * 255.255.255.255 UH lo > 54.xx.xx.0 * 255.255.255.0 U > eth0 > --------------- > > 8) # route add 54.xx.xx.xx gw 54.xx.xx.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0 > ERROR: netmask: 000000ff doesn't make sense with host route > > ------------ > > > Andy I. Liaw, PhD > Biometrics Research Phone: (732) 594-0820 > Merck & Co., Inc. Fax: (732) 594-1565 > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
