Re: Trouble installing NIC...

[Jordan Melville <jordan vinyladdiction com>]

Wow! Thanks Steve, that solved the problem with the lockups... It all now 
*appears* to be up correctly, *but* (you knew that was coming, right?) I 
now have a new problem..

I've got my IP, netmask, DNS, and gateway info in the config, and it all 
shows up and appears to be right when I check eth0 settings..

When I try to ping any address I get "network unreachable".

I've used all the same info from my second computer (which is turned off 
when booting this one) and it works just fine..

Am I missing something else?



At 05:23 PM 5/29/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> Oooops... ;-)  Typo...
>
> The /etc/conf.modules file entry reads as follows:
> alias eth0 eepro
> options eepro irq=0 io=0x200
>
> Sorry for the extra Email, folks!!  ;-)
>
> SteveB
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Bottoms" <sbottoms diamondmill com>
> To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 5:20 PM
> Subject: Re: Trouble installing NIC...
>
>
> > Jordan, I just went throught the same thing with the same adapter this
> > morning on a new install of 6.2 (2.2.14-5.0)...  here's basically what it
> > came down to:
> >
> > First, I booted a DOS disk and ran softset2.exe and configured the
> > EtherExpress Pro for IRQ3 (COM2), I/O 0x200h.  I originally had the
> adapter
> > configured and functioning perfectly in an NT Server under IRQ 5, but
> since
> > it works now on 3, I ain't gonna temp Fate!!  ;-)
> >
> > Second, I booted the linux partition and hit the 'I' key to get into
> > Interactive mode.  When the networking modules came up, I just answered
> 'No'
> > to load them (that gets around the bloody locking problem).
> >
> > Third, I edited the /etc/conf.modules file (which originally didn't have
> an
> > eth0 device entry in it) with the following:
> > alias eth0 eepro
> > options irq=0 io=0x200
> >
> > Finally, I rebooted, and (miracle of miracles!) everything came up
> > perfectly!!  Please note that I'd already configured the networking with
> > /bin/netconf, so all of the IP and machine name stuff was already
> > configured.
> >
> > Hope this helps!! :)
> >
> > SteveB
> >