On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Shane Williams wrote: > Second, they brought out an ethernet card (installation was free so I > took it), and I'm wondering if anybody else has used this model > before. The box says it is a Focus Networks EtherLan PCI. It has > both a T and 2 connectors and it's a 10Mb/sec card. Has anyone gotten > it to work, or should I just put in a card that I know will do the job? I just thought I'd let everyone know the resolution of things. First, I finally managed to track down who makes the Focus Networks card, and then figure out that the chip that actually runs it is a realtek 8029. So, when I plugged it into my machine and rebooted, kudzu (RH 6.1's hardware detection program), found it, figured out to used the ne2k-pci dirver module and then tried to configure the card with DHCP. Now, at this point I suspect that what happened is that it got upset about the fact that I was trying to configure a network with another ethernet card already setup as eth0. So, I removed the information on both cards from kudzu's database, rebooted, and it proceeded to install the Focus card first with DHCP, and then add my other card. The best part was that IP chains worked without me having to tell it that eth0 was now the default gateway rather than ppp0 Thanks again to everybody that gave me pointers. Community support always reminds that it wasn't a purely technical decision that made me choose linux those many years ago. -- Public key at www-swiss.ai.mit.edu | Shane Williams /~bal/pks-toplev.html | Systems Administrator UT-GSLIS =----------------------------------+------------------------------- All syllogisms contain three lines | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Therefore this is not a syllogism | www.gslis.utexas.edu/~shanew --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
