Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-28 Thread Art Edwards
I hope this is not too late. I have several machines running NE2000 ISA cards. To get them to work I had to use DOS to turn off the plug-n-play feature and to assure that each is using a different IRQ and io address. For single NIC machines, I compiled ne into the kernel, making sure that the IO an

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting urbanyon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > sorry - which file is this? i'm having big NIC problems as well. > > On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, David Wright wrote: > > > You can put module-loading options in a file > > called, say, /etc/modutils/local and then run ^^^ Cheers,

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-25 Thread urbanyon
sorry - which file is this? i'm having big NIC problems as well. On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, David Wright wrote: > You can put module-loading options in a file > called, say, /etc/modutils/local and then run > update-modules to incorporate them in modules.conf. > man update-modules explains. > > Here'

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Xucaen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > --- Vincent Besse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ne io=0x300 (replace of course with with your > > values) > > in /etc/modules. That's all. > > > > Vincent > > I thought so! but when I edited it, the comments > at the top scared me. ;-) /etc/modules shou

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-21 Thread Xucaen
--- Vincent Besse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ne io=0x300 (replace of course with with your > values) > in /etc/modules. That's all. > > Vincent I thought so! but when I edited it, the comments at the top scared me. ;-) I have installed slackware before and maybe I just got spoiled. Slackware

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-21 Thread Xucaen
--- Dwight Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, John Griffiths wrote: > > > trying to do a new install on a box with an > NE2000 NIC > I was never able to get this done in the > install. I completed the install > without networking and then, after some > research, placed: >

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-20 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, John Griffiths wrote: > >I was never able to get this done in the install. I completed the install > >without networking and then, after some research, placed: > > > >alias eth0 ne > >options ne io=0x300 irq=10 > > > >in the file /etc/modutils/network. Of course, after mo

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-20 Thread Vincent Besse
John Griffiths wrote: > Hello Hi > trying to do a new install on a box with an NE2000 NIC > > having trouble with the module on install (that is it fails) > > do i need to tell it the IRQ/IO arguments? > > if so what is the syntax? You can use isapnptools to detect and install your card. Then y

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-20 Thread ktb
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 10:44:57AM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > >I was never able to get this done in the install. I completed the install > >without networking and then, after some research, placed: > > > >alias eth0 ne > >options ne io=0x300 irq=10 > > > >in the file /etc/modutils/network.

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-20 Thread John Griffiths
>Load it on install anyway, if you can, because it'll save time later. >When you try to load the module, does the installer give you a place for >you to type the module options? I can't check this at the moment, but I >think it does. Type in it something like: io=0x300 irq=10 (as Dwight >said above

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-20 Thread Matthew Dalton
John Griffiths wrote: > > >I was never able to get this done in the install. I completed the install > >without networking and then, after some research, placed: > > > >alias eth0 ne > >options ne io=0x300 irq=10 > > > >in the file /etc/modutils/network. Of course, after more research, I had

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-20 Thread John Griffiths
>I was never able to get this done in the install. I completed the install >without networking and then, after some research, placed: > >alias eth0 ne >options ne io=0x300 irq=10 > >in the file /etc/modutils/network. Of course, after more research, I had to >complete the rest of the network co

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-20 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, John Griffiths wrote: > trying to do a new install on a box with an NE2000 NIC > having trouble with the module on install (that is it fails) > do i need to tell it the IRQ/IO arguments? > > if so what is the syntax? I was never able to get this done in the install. I comple