I'm trying to get an Allied Telesyn International AT-2000 (NE-2000 clone)
to work with RedHat v5.0 (kernel 2.0.32) and am having no luck. I've spent
many hours reading faqs, howto's, linux newsgroup postings but I'm still
not sure what the problem is.
The AT-2000 is a plug-and-play card, but I've disabled the plug-and-play
feature with the card's setup software and manually set the irq and i/o
port range. I know the card itself works in this mode because I can
dual-boot this PC (a new Compaq Deskpro 2000) to Win95 and Win95 can attach
to shared resources on my WinNT system and I can ping either system from
either system.
The card is configured for IRQ 10 and I/O port 0x300. I've tried entering
these
boot options at the lilo prompt:
linux ether=10,0x300,eth0
linux ether=10,0x300,0,0,eth0
Using the second set of boot options, a boot message something like this
appears as linux initializes: "delaying eth0 initialization", and then I
see several boot messages displaying version numbers for Appletalk and IPX.
I don't see any other network related messages either as the system boots
or using dmesg.
When I look at /proc/ioports and /proc/interrupts, no entries appear for
i/o 0x300 or for irq 10.
I've used the control-panel network dialog to add an interface for the card
so now my list of interfaces is:
Interface IP proto atboot active
lo 127.0.0.1 none yes active
eth0 192.168.0.3 none yes inactive
I've tried activating the eth0 interface, and the dialog switches from
inactive to active, but ping still tells me the network is unreachable when
I try to ping my NT machine at 192.168.0.1 (although I can ping the
loopback address 127.0.0.1 just fine).
I've used the control-panel kernel configurator to add a module for eth0,
but I can't see that this has had any affect at all. I add eth0, set it to
the "ne" module, tell it to use irq 10 and i/o 0x300. Then I click on the
restart kerneld button but nothing appears to happen.
The RedHat Installation guide says that the changes made with the kerneld
tool will be written to /etc/conf.modules. This is puzzling me too, because
I look at /etc/conf.modules and although the file is present it is always
empty. I've looked at it immediately after adding the module, after
restarting kerneld, and after rebooting, but its always empty. Am I doing
something wrong?
I've also tried inactivating and reactivating the eth0 interface after
restarting kerneld, but this appears to have no effect.
If I reboot the system and restart the kerneld configurator, the eth0
module that I added is missing from the list of modules interface. Is this
normal?
At this point I don't know whether I'm missing something in the software
configuration, or whether the AT-2000 is one of those NE-2000 clones that
won't work with RedHat Linux 5.0. Anyone have any ideas? I've already
spent hours reading the various howto's and manuals and am at the limit of
my understanding.
TIA,
Al Margheim
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