[5528] in RedHat Linux List

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: Network with Linux

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allen Francom)
Thu Nov 21 21:47:18 1996

Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 10:47:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Allen Francom <redhat_list@numedics.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <3294D4BB.13A8@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com



Interesting.

If it is a plug 'n pay adapter, you might consider running the software 
that came with it (if any) and DISABLE plug 'n play.

Then set it up, tell Linux what you did and see if it works then.

Hope this helps.

THX
-AEF

On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Gregory Zaraysky wrote:

> Gregory Zaraysky wrote:
>  
>  Hello!
>          I have a problem with linux finding my new ethernet card. I
> have bought
>  new NE2000 compatible card, recompiled my kernel with support for it
> but
>  when I boot the computer it does not work. If I specify  the parameters
>  (irq and I/O address) at boot prompt it seem to find it, and does not
>  give me any error messages, but still does not start network. When I
> run
>  /sbin/ifconfig it does not show me the information about it. I found a
>  utility for testing the card online (ne2k) and it tests the card and
>  says that the card passes all the tests. However I still can not start
>  network. When I try to start it by ifup ifconfig-eth1 it says
>  Delaying eth1 initialization.
>          BTW, I am using Redhat 4.0 and if I try to imitate instalation
> from
>  NFS, instalation program finds the card. But in that case I specify
> what
>  kind of card I have, while in case of usual bootup I do not.
> 
>          Thank you very much in advance.
>          Gregory.
> 
> 
> --
>   PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!
>   ________________________________________________________________________
>   http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ   http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-Errata
>   http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-Tips  http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe redhat-list-request@redhat.com < /dev/null
> 


--
  PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!
  ________________________________________________________________________
  http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ   http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-Errata
  http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-Tips  http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe redhat-list-request@redhat.com < /dev/null


home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post