Re: No network on Noname box

[Uncle George <gatgul voicenet com>]

I have used a 3com 3c509 ( etherlink III card ) on that machine. 

the board has no network kard. 


> Justin Malcolm wrote:
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> Madainn
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> I have an old 233Mhz noname alpha machine that I would like to put
> Linux on.  It is just the motherboard and I have mounted it in a plain
> old PC case.  It seems to run the ARC firmware so I am using MILO.
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> I installed Red Hat 7.1 fine and it runs well but the network card
> does not work.  There is no built in card although some of the
> websites I have seen imply that there should be.
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> I tried several NICs including Intel eepro, 3Com 905c, and others that
> work great with Linux on Intel.  None of them work.  I am trying to
> use DHCP and it times out all the time.  When I do an ifconfig I don't
> see any eth0 info.
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> I tried to recompile the kernel and compile the card support in
> directly.  I tried 2.4.3, 2.4.9, and 2.4.17.  No luck.
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> So, I tried Red Hat 7.0 and Mandrake 7.1.  Both of those seem to
> segfault or kernel panic early in the install.
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> I notice that Mandrake Cooker seems to have the very latest stuff
> compiled for Alpha but I have no idea how to make CDs from the Cooker
> archive and am not even sure how to install that distro given the disk
> images provided.  I don't think I can boot from CD using MILO.
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> Does anybody know how I can get the network going on Red Hat or how to
> install Mandrake Cooker on this machine?
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> Even a pointer in the right direction would be much appreciated.
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> Thanks.
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> Justin Malcolm