Please help! I've installed bo on my machine at work, and I want to start using it as my main workstation, but the kernel won't recognize my ethernet card. The machine is a Pentium-based machine made (apparently) by a company called Prime. I've got an ISA ethernet card that has E2000 printed on it, and so I've assumed it's an NE2000 compatible. There's a paper note taped on the inside of the machine that says that the ethernet card is IRQ 7, and I've tried booting from LILO with "linux ether=7", but no go. I've tried any number of ways, but to no avail. When I boot under W95, however, the card works fine. Although I know practically nothing about hardware, I was under the impression that NE2000 compatible cards were very common and should definitely be seen by the default kernel.
If anyone can give me any clues as to how to proceed with this, I'd be very grateful. I'm almost at wit's end on this. Oh, one more question: I've assumed that if the kernel recognizes the ether card, that eth0 interface will be created automatically and displayed when you do "ifconfig". Is this the case? Or am I simply missing some software configuration that will cause the card to be seen? Thanks much IA, Dave -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
