[ale] RH 8.0 won't recognize my NIC

[James P. Kinney III]

They may be too new for use with a RH8 installation. Double check the
makers web site. If they have drivers for RH7, they may update those on
line. 

You may need to make a custom boot kernel for the installation and use
that kernel instead of the RH8 version. 

On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 22:52, Cameron Childress wrote:
> Yeah, that's the thing - I bought them today, so they are brand spanking
> new.  Came with Drivers for RH 6 and 7, but not 8.  The natsemi mod should
> work though.  Any other ideas?
> 
> -Cameron
> 
> -----------------
> Cameron Childress
> Sumo Consulting Inc.
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> 
> > There may be an interrupt conflict. If the card was made at the same
> > time as the old clunky box was, it may need to have some jumpers moved
> > around. If it's an early PCI card, many were not auto-play jobs and had
> > to have an eeprom set with a (usually DOS) program.
> >
> > It may be easier to grab a pair of $10 (or $2 used) cheap nics (RealTek
> > work OK, not speed demons but great for DSL sharing) and install them
> > one at a time so you can easily get the MAC address and IO ports for
> > correctly designating which is internal and external nic.
> >
> > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 21:22, Cameron Childress wrote:
> > > Relative Linux newbie here - so go easy on me...  I'm
> > attempting to install
> > > and configure RH 8.0 as a simple Firewall/NAT/DHCP for my DSL
> > connection and
> > > small home network.  The machine I have installed it on is an
> > old Packard
> > > Hell Pentium I, and everything seems to have gone fine with the
> > > installation, except for one thing...  I can't for the life of
> > me get it to
> > > recognize the network card(s).  Right now I have taken out the
> > second one
> > > and am attempting to get it to recognize one card.
> > >
> > > What I have done so far:
> > >
> > > /etc/modules.conf has the line "alias eth0 natsemi" - which
> > should be the
> > > driver module for the card, a PCI Netgear FA311 10/100.
> > >
> > > I've also run netconfig, and have configured the network settings.
> > >
> > > I'm in the process of pouring over a couple of Linux books and
> > have found a
> > > few other interesting bits of possibly relevant information.
> > After running
> > > "cat /proc/ioports" I found that the system had two entries for
> > the network
> > > card:
> > >
> > > fc00-fcff : National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815
> > (MacPhyter) Ethernet
> > > Controller
> > > fc00-fcff : eth0
> > >
> > > I also found that when I ran "less /proc/interrupts", I found
> > entries for
> > > the mouse, keyboard, etc - but it didn't have any IRQ entries
> > for the NIC at
> > > all.
> > >
> > > The specific error I get when I restart is:
> > >
> > > Bringing up interface eth0 : Failed to bring up eth0.
> > > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy.
> > >
> > > Anyone have an idea of what might be wrong, or what else I might
> > > check/try/configure?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > -Cameron
> > >
> > > -----------------
> > > Cameron Childress
> > > Sumo Consulting Inc.
> > > ---
> > > cell:  678-637-5072
> > > aim:   cameroncf
> > > email: cameronc at mindspring.com
> > >
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