Steven kindly responded:
>> 1. Create bare.i bootdisk (net.i doesn't find NIC)
>
>This is a bad sign. If the net.i kernel doesn't see your
>card, then there may be a hardware problem. Perhaps an IRQ
>or address conflict? Does your network card have jumpers?
>Or perhaps it has a DOS installation routine?
I've used it to play Doom on three monitors on in that exact same computer.
So any hardware faults are IMO unlikely - but so I thought on my main
machine with that NIC - but W95 and Linux wouldn't work with it at first
either.
>> 1. My card is believed to be an "acenic" card - using this
>> later fails since eth0 isn't there.
>
>I assume you tried ifconfig?
No :/
>> modprobe ne io=0x360
>
>Are you sure your network card is ne2000?
Yes, it's a NE2000 compatible. Hmm... perhaps I shouldn't have thrown the
box away (I did that a few days ago). It's called a SN2000 - and it's
claimed to be NE2000 compatible. It works with NE2000 drivers in DOS.
An interesting note is that DR-DOS 7.03 can't ID the card in it's setup
utility (thereby forced me to create my own "driver files" (dummy files
that didn't to anything) so I could install the server).
>Are you sure your network card is set to 0x360?
I've tried 300-360 (with 20 in increment).
>I've found that the latest distributions of Linux don't install as
>easily on old hardware. If you have 486-era hardware, you may have
>fewer problems installing an older distribution, like Slackware 3.x.
Yes, I've got that (Slackware 3.x) somewhere around here - I didn't have a
NIC in the computer when I installed that version.
>Don't give up. There are still plenty of things to try.
>For example, does that computer/networkcard work in DOS (this can
>be done from a DOS boot floppy, so there is no need to touch your
>Linux installation). If you can get a DOS packetdriver working,
>then the same parameters should work in Linux.
Ok, I'll try it again with a DOS floppy (just to make sure that the card is
still working).
//Bernie
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