RE: help with NE2000 card

[Uncle Meat <kcsmart kcinter net>]

On 27-Feb-99 Kent Lewandowski opined:
> 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

I too have a NIC that is a PCI NE200-compatible board. But, the driver is
hosed or something because it couldn't find it. I instead shose the ISA
version and gave it the IRQ and all is now well in la-la land.

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