It is quite possible, but I am not sure where to look for this sort of thing.
However, the card works fine once I added the alias, and other distros and
operating systems (win98, win2k and winXp) have no problems at all - only
RedHat.
That is what I find curious!
On Friday 18 October 2002 22:01, Oisin C. Feeley wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Ryan Harkin wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have not heard anyone else complaining that their TULIP based network
> > card will not install automatically.
> >
> > If I add an alias into /etc/modules.conf ("alias eth0 tulip") then it
> > works fine. I had this same problem when I tried RedHat 7.3.
> >
> > Does anyone else get this problem? Why is it not detected?
>
> I have the exact same card and it was autodetected, configured and is
> working fine on a fresh Red Hat 8.0 installation. It required absolutely
> nothing from me apart from specifying an IP during install. Perhaps you
> have an irq conflict or something. Have you searched your logs for clues?
>
> Oisin Feeley
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