I screwed up the address on my second message (sent Wednesday morning)
about my ethernet problem so it didn't get through to the list. So I'm
forwarding it again. Also, since I received a few follow up questions,
I'll add the answers at the end of the forwarded message. Hope someone
will be able to help.

-----FW: re 2]:ethernet card-----

Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:16:08 +0200 (IST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: re'2]:ethernet card

On 22-Mar-2000 Alex Dubrovsky wrote:
> Maybe instead of shouting you should give us some more details?

Actually, I don't think I was shouting. It was more like crying in
desperation :-) After finally making the move from OS/2 to LINUX,
I've had too many problems with setting things up. It took me almost a
month to find a solution to my CD-RW problem so I guess I'm getting a
bit frustrated !!! But you are right that I should have given more
details so I do apologize.

I'm running Mandrake 7.0 (kernel 2.2.14 re-compiled with a few changes I
made because of the CD-RW problems I was having) on a Pentium III 500.

The ethernet card is an ISA Intel EtherExpress PRO (WIN98 identifies and
uses it with no problem) using IRQ 10 and i/o 300. 

A kernel module for this exists but trying to use it with **modprobe**
locks up the machine - no message, but I had to turn off the power to
restart the computer. 

Ifconfig only shows a loopback device. 

Lothar (the Mandrake hardware utility) doesn't see the card but if I run
etherconfig directly from the command line it allows me to choose the
card from a list of cards and adds the info to /etc/conf.modules but
none of this helps. The card is still not seen.

Obviously, ping tells me that the network is unreachable.

> 
>>From: "Shlomo Solomon" 
>>Subject: ethernet card
>>Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 19:15:54 -0500 (EST)
>>
>>I admit I'm still new to LINUX, but it shouldn't be so hard to set
>>up. Once things are working, it's a pleasure to run, but if we want
>>more people to adopt LINUX, it's just got to be more friendly. I'm a
>>professional programmer and have worked with PCs for nearly 20 years.
>>So I know something about the hardware and software including
>>Windows, DOS, OS/2. As much as I dislike Windows98, setting up my
>>home network - hardware and software was almost automatic and took
>>very little time and everything works fine. But on my LINUX box, I'm
>>about ready to give up !!!! Please don't tell me to RTFM because I
>>spent the entire day today doing just that. Nothing I do has
>>succeeded in recognizing my Intel EtherExpress PRO card. I even
>>managed to crash my machine a couple of times using modprobe to try
>>to manually load the kernel module.

------------End of forwarded message-------------------------


And here's some more info as requested by members of the list:


On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:26:40 -0000, Mike wrote:

>Did you recompile the kernel with the NIC support ? (well if the kernel
>recognized the hardware then you probably did).
As I wrote, I compiled for a completely different reason, but there is a
module for the card but the hardware is **not** recognized.

>What is the problem actually ?
>The TCP/IP ?
>SMB ?
I haven't gotten that far since the card is not recognized

>do you have the /etc/sysconfig/network file ?
looks OK but again not relevant until I can get the card recognized

>and the do you have the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file
this file doesn't exist on my system - again, probably since the card
is not seen



On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 23:26:45 +0200 (GMT+0200), Yedidya Bar-david wrote:


>2. You didn't say which FM you actually R. Did you try the
>Ethernet-HOWTO?
yes


>3. Does it appear in the output of 'cat /proc/pci'? If not, I think you
>have no chance.
not relevant - the card is ISA


On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:13:35 +0200, Ury Segal wrote:


>please send output of /sbin/lspci 
again, not relevant for my ISA card

>your .config file, and output of /sbin/lsmod .
I'm including only what I think is the relevant part of .config since
the file is too big to send to the list. If someone really wants to see
the whole file, let me know.

#
# Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
#
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
CONFIG_EL1=m
CONFIG_EL2=m
CONFIG_ELPLUS=m
CONFIG_EL16=m
CONFIG_EL3=m
CONFIG_3C515=m
CONFIG_BC90X=m
CONFIG_VORTEX=m
CONFIG_LANCE=m
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC=y
CONFIG_WD80x3=m
CONFIG_ULTRA=m
CONFIG_ULTRA32=m
CONFIG_SMC9194=m
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_RACAL=y
CONFIG_NI5010=m
CONFIG_NI52=m
CONFIG_NI65=m
CONFIG_RTL8139=m
CONFIG_NET_ISA=y
CONFIG_AT1700=m
CONFIG_E2100=m
CONFIG_DEPCA=m
CONFIG_EWRK3=m
CONFIG_EEXPRESS=m
CONFIG_EEXPRESS_PRO=m
CONFIG_FMV18X=m
CONFIG_HPLAN_PLUS=m
CONFIG_HPLAN=m
CONFIG_HP100=m
CONFIG_ETH16I=m
CONFIG_NE2000=m
# CONFIG_SEEQ8005 is not set
CONFIG_SK_G16=y
CONFIG_NET_EISA=y
CONFIG_PCNET32=m
CONFIG_AC3200=m
CONFIG_APRICOT=m
CONFIG_CS89x0=m
CONFIG_DM9102=m
CONFIG_DE4X5=m
CONFIG_DEC_ELCP=m
CONFIG_DEC_ELCP_OLD=m
CONFIG_DGRS=m
CONFIG_EEXPRESS_PRO100=m
CONFIG_LNE390=m
CONFIG_NE3210=m
CONFIG_NE2K_PCI=m
CONFIG_RL100ATX=m
CONFIG_TLAN=m
CONFIG_VIA_RHINE=m
CONFIG_SIS900=m
CONFIG_ES3210=m
CONFIG_EPIC100=m
# CONFIG_ZNET is not set
CONFIG_NET_POCKET=y
CONFIG_ATP=y
CONFIG_DE600=m
CONFIG_DE620=m


and here's /sbin/lsmod 

Module                  Size  Used by
eepro                  12080   0  (unused)
nfs                    31832   1  (autoclean)
lockd                  33256   1  (autoclean) [nfs]
sunrpc                 56612   1  (autoclean) [nfs lockd]
slhc                    4392   0 
hpfs                    8920   2  (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1           2052   3  (autoclean)
vfat                   11004   3  (autoclean)
nls_cp437               3580   4  (autoclean)
msdos                   5820   1  (autoclean)
fat                    32640   4  (autoclean) [vfat msdos]
esssolo1               25480   0 
soundcore               3524   4  [esssolo1]

Note that the eepro line is a result of running modprobe, but a) that
still doesn't help and b) running modprobe locked up the computer twice


Sorry if this post is a bit long, but I'm trying to give all the info I
ws asked for.




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Shlomo Solomon
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Date: 22-Mar-2000   Time: 22:57:02

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