Re: ethernet card question

["Stephen and Julia Schott" <sbschott home com>]

I have disabled PnP- but now how do I set the card up? I have also changed
the Interrupt to 240 at the recommendation of someone.


----- Original Message -----
From: identity <id pt lu>
To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: ethernet card question


> 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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