I ran into the exact same thing, and it turned out to be the syntax of
what the netconf (or was it modules.conf) wanted. Try resetting things
with linuxconf, and then go and look at what the syntax for the IRQ and
I/O addresses look like. That was what fixed it for me.
Luck,
Nic
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>
> I'm fairly new to the Linux world, so please bare with me here. I've got
> RH 6.2 and I'm trying to setup a NIC that isn't being recognized by Linux.
> It's a Linksys EtherFast NIC. According to Lynksys and Support Red Hat
> pages, I should be using the tulip driver with the card, no luck. I can
> get the Interrupt and IO address from /proc/pci, can I use this information
> to configure the driver in netconf? The IRQ is 9 and the IO says : 0xfc00
> [0xfc01] (from /proc/pci). When inputing these factors into netconf and
> using the tulip driver (manually entering IP information also), the card
> still won't work. Doing a tail -f /var/logs/messages gives me an invalid
> parm_io message when trying to 'ifup eth0'. Any and all help will be
> appreciated.
>
> If I happen to be posting to a mailing list that doesn't handle these
> issues, please let me know if there is a better mailing list to post this
> to or any pages that specifically handle this problem.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Scott Bowling
>
> PS- Is there a location for me to search the mailing list archives? I had
> to go a round about way to find out if this mailing lists exists!
>
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