help with NE2000 card

[Kent Lewandowski <lewandow uwm edu>]

I cannot figure out how to install my nic card under Linux.  I have
an ASANTE NE2000 compliant nic card, hardware tested and installed.  
However during the Red Hat installation process I got the message
'couldn't find the device you specified' ? when I picked 'NE2000
compliant' from the list of available ethernet drivers.  Now I went to 
H.M's website and tried the following suggested remedy:

 alias  eth0  " name of driver module"                                  
 #  ( Use the driver name from  /lib/modules/"kernel
  version"/net )    

 On my system I think that means I needed to try
   --  alias eth0 /lib/modules/preferred/net/ne2k-pci.o

 But when I tried /sbin/modprobe eth0 I got the following message:
 ../ne2k-pci.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

 Please help!!!

 Kent

 In article <7b48ed$d95$1 usenet46 supernews com>,
   Howard Mann <howardm xmission com> wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > Alistair Flower-Smith wrote:
 > > 
 > > I need to install a new network card in my machine (Red Hat 5.2
Kernel
 > > 2.0.36), I installed the NE2000 driver (for a D-Link 220) at
initial
 > > install, and now need to install a 3Com 3c905b TX instead.   How do
I go
 > > about this?  Is recompiling the kernel involved 'cos that sounds a
bit
 > > drastic to this rather simple Windows user?
 > > 
 > > Alistair
 > > 
 > 
 > You do not need to recompile the kernel. You may configure your
system to
 > load the NIC driver as a module.
 > 
 > Peruse :  http://www.xmission.com/~howardm/ethernet.html
 > 
 > Cheers,
 > 
 > Howard Mann.
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Kent Lewandowski
UW-Milwaukee School of Business
lewandow uwm edu