Re: ethernet card question

["identity" <id pt lu>]

Many people got this problem with similar cards!

Try using the card without pnp. Linux doesn't like it at all.



----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen and Julia Schott <sbschott home com>
To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 2:12 PM
Subject: ethernet card question


> I posted this once before but after agonizing hours and a sheer
desperation
> to get onto the internet in Linux, I'm posting this again. It all boils
down
> to: no internet- no Linux for me! And I'm desperate to use it!
>
> Remembering I'm a new user, here is my biggest problem:
>
> Ethernet card setup with cable modem.
> My Card is a pnp ne2000 compatible Realtek 8019. According to Win98, it's
on
> IRQ 3 with an address of 0220 -023F
>
> Here are the steps I've taken (got this off a web page at
> http://members.home.net/jasonbrossa/Linux/index.html):
>
> 1. Run pnpdump. Dumped into a file called intel.conf.
> 2. Edited intel.conf. pnpdump found two pnp cards: my modem and my
ethernet
> card (by the way, I can't get either to work but I'm in an iterative
process
> here and would just like to get on the web!). I uncommented the line that
> looks like
> (IO 0 (BASE 0x220))
> The base address was right (though it doesn't have the -023F that Win98
> showed-does this matter?)
>
> Then I uncommented the IRQ line and confirmed it read IRQ 3
> Then I uncommented the ACT Y line.
>
> I did not touch any of the info for the modem.
> Saved and closed file.
>
> 3. Next I ran isapnp intel.conf (I guess this my settings)
> Here is the error I get when I do this (it reads something like this):
> Board 1 has Identity... (numbers and stuff- this is my ethernet card)
> Board 2 has Identity...( this is my modem card)
> FATAL- Resource conflict allocating 32 bytes of IO at 220
> FATAL- IO Range check attempted while device activated
> FATAL- Error occurred executing request 'IORESCHECK'
> Further action aborted
>
> I typed the above from handwritten notes, so it might not have come out
> exactly like that, but close.
>
> 4. I have checked the interrupts and ports using cat /proc/ioports and
> interrupts and see no conflict.
>
> I have the next steps written down that I need to do, but right now I'm
> stuck here...
>
> Remember, I'm almost completely new to Unix/linux, so anything too
techspeak
> is likely to baffle me.
>
> I have also disabled PnP on the card itself os it is not enabled. Even if
> you can't answer this, if you could recommend a place where I might fing
> answers, I would appreciate it.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>
>
> Stephen Schott
> sbschott home com
>
>
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