Mike,
The messages you weren't expecting is because eth0 wasn't there.
And the coax connector is for the RG68AU cable wiring used before RJ45.
It ran peer-to-peer with T connectors and 50ohm terminating resistors.
If you put a T connector on the Coax and get a hub with a coax backbone
(Linksys makes and 8 port with a Coax backbone for about $48.00) you can
connect this to your Etherexpress card.
Most folks don't know that you can only uplink 4 hubs before users can't
see beyond the fourth hub. But with a coax backbone you can string
multiple hubs together and you're not within the same limitations.
Good Luck
Arnie
Mike Jesch wrote:
>
> On 2 Feb 00 at 12:12, Jonathan Freed wrote:
>
> > I have the very same card in my gateway. What you need to do my friend is
> > disable plug and play on the card.
> >
> > To do this :
> > 1. find the disk that came with your NIC.
> > 2. stick a Dos or WIN bootdisk in your gateway and boot off it.
> > 2. put the NIC disk in. (duh i know)
> > 4. CD to the UTLITIES dir.
> > 5. run SETUP (or DIAG works too).
> > 6. disable plug and play.
> > 7. set the settings and save it to the EPROM by pressing F10 (i think).
> > 8. reboot and setup your router to match the new settings.
> >
> > hope that helps... if not
> > check your BIOS and make sure you disable Plug and Play there. I had to do
> > that to let Linux load up on one of my computers...
>
> Thanks... But I can't see any way in the DIAG program that will
> disable P&P on the NIC. I also can't find a way to disable P&P in
> the Compaq setup program. There is a window where the Compaq setup
> program tells me a few options for BIO and IRQ for the NIC, but I
> can't change it to a more "normal" 0x300 for example, it insists on
> 0x1000 or 0x7000 - 0x7F00.
>
> Interestingly, the RedHat Linux (5.1 I think) hard drive I had laying
> around boots right up on that machine, even though the hardware
> configuration is quite different than the 486 I had it in. Of
> course, it doesn't recognise eth0 either.
>
> During the STN boot, I get a couple messages I wasn't expecting:
>
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
> SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device
> SIOCADDRT: No such device
>
> Any ideas what these mean?
>
> Just for kicks, I just re-installed an Intel EtherExpress 16 card
> I've got, configured it for IRQ 10, BIO 0x300, reburned by STN
> diskette with an Intel EtherExpress driver, and it seems to be
> working fine. Only problem is, I only have 10-base-2 (or whatever a
> coax connector is) and AUI connectors on the back of the card, so I
> have to hang an AUI to RJ-45 adaptor on the back to make it talk to
> the rest of my network. A bit of a pain, but not the end of the
> world.
>
> Mike Jesch
>
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