Re: help with NE2000 card

[Kent Lewandowski <lewandow uwm edu>]

Todd,

You were right.  Setting an 'options' line in conf.modules
did the trick.  Plus, I had to use the ne module as you
suggested, rather than ne2k-pci.  

Now for the next part:  I want to use FTP services, and eventually
WWW (just for communicating between 2 pc's via ethernet).  Would
you suggest using wu-ftpd?  I installed the package, but can find no
documentation.  And apache - likewise.  I need a good overview of
how to set up these services on Red Hat -- can you make any
suggestions.

Kent

todd_d prodigy net wrote:
> 
> Kent,
> 
> Is this an ISA or PCI card? Secondly, is the card PnP?
> 
> If the card is ISA PnP, then you will need to use the isapnp
> program to initialize it first, then use modprobe or insmod
> to load the driver for it.
> 
> In my experience, the redhat install program cannot do
> anything with ISA PnP cards, which may explain why it
> did not find it. However, I have had it correctly identify the
> PCI version of this card. I believe this is because the driver
> can correctly find the needed config info while probing on
> the PCI bus, but not on the ISA bus.
> 
> Anyhow, at work I use isapnp to initialize the card, then I use
> modprobe to load the driver. The info needed by modprobe
> sits in /etc/conf.modules. An example is:
> 
> alias eth0 ne
> options ne io=0x280 irq=9
> 
> This info should reflect the config parameters passed to isapnp
> in /etc/isapnp.conf.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Todd
> 
> Kent Lewandowski wrote:
> 
> > 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

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Kent Lewandowski
UW-Milwaukee School of Business
lewandow uwm edu