On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Dan Egli wrote:
> Sounds like the Y is being cheap and sending cheapie nics to you. Your best
> bet is to get a better NIC. You can get decent Nics for around $20-30 now
> days.
I remember having the same problems, but Tim Riker was successful in
getting it to work at a Install-O-Rama we had using the ne2000 driver.
Here are the suggestions he sent:
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The NIC we worked on (might have been a Realtek) was a PnP ne2000 compatible
nic. Instructions:
1) create a /etc/isapnp.cnf is you don't have one by running pnpdump >
/etc/isapnp.conf as root.
2) edit this file and uncomment the lines you need. Something like:
(INT 0 (IRQ 10 (MODE +E)))
(IO 0 (BASE 0x0300))
(ACT Y)
would set base to 0x300 and irq=10.
3) edit /etc/conf.modules and add:
alias eth0 ne
options ne io=0x300
or similar. This sets the io port to read when the module loads.
Now test it:
isapnp < /etc/isapnp.conf
modprobe eth0
ifconfig eth0
you should see valid hardware address data. Then just set up the net using
regular OS setup. I used linuxconf or netconf under redhat for this and set up
eth0 to be a dhcp client. That was all that was required for the BYU net setup.
--
Tim Riker - http://riker.dsl.inconnect.com/ - short SIGs! <g>
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