I am using a cheap NE200 compatible PCI networkcard,
First I had to find out the irq and io.adress of my card and give this
information to the kernel at boot time:
eg.: lilo:linux ether=9,io=0xff80,eth0
or you can add a line in your lilo.conf file :
append='the above (ether....)'
and then run lilo (see also the lilo.conf man page)
but you're also asked about boot-time options during installation ( when
configuring networking, i.e. your ethernet card
if your about to install a new systwm) and there you give the information:
irq=9,io=0xff80
Of course you have to figure out the irq and io-adress your card uses, the
examples above work for my card.
Then if you want to compile a new kernel:
2.0.34:
there is an entry NE2000 and compatible under PCI cards, but this is new
below 2.0.34:
You have to enable 'other ISA cards' (or so)
and there you will find the NE2000. Don't be disturbed(or maybe one should
be) this also works for PCI cards.
Personally I had a bit of a problem (not really a problem rather an
inconvenience) : I have my home directory mounted over nfs and some how
closing an xterm took several seconds (5-10 or so) and this doesn't happen
with the 2.0.34 kernel, but I 'm not really sure wether that's really
conected to the NE2000 driver.
Good luck,
Clemens
On Sun, 31 May 1998, Perez, Victor wrote:
> I've hear about problem using PCI network cards with Linux. I want to know
> if I'm going to have problems if I try to use a cheap NE2000 compatible PCI
> network card with Linux.
>
> Thanks for your support,
> Victor Perez Muena
>
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