Re: trouble-shooting eth0 problems

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 03:57 PM 8/12/99 -0400, you wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Alan Mead spewed into the bitstream:
>
>> I'm in a bind and I thought some expert advice might save me a lot of time.
>> 
>> I now wish to have my RH 6.0 machine on the LAN here.  I opened the case,
>> added a HP ISA card (no jumpers), booted, configured eth0 in the network
>> tool in control panel in X, removed the old ethernet module and loaded
>> hp100 (I modprobed in net for h* and the hp100 loaded and seemed happy).  I
>> edited conf.modules to make hp100 the eth0 alias.  At some point I pluged
>> the ethernet into it.  
>> 
>> When I boot I get all [OK] messages (except for NFS which I'm going to rip
>> out shortly).  

I futzed with it some more and got it working.  I think all the obvious
stuff was correct except that I didn't have "eth0" as the gateway device,
maybe having had that would have solved the issue "up front".  But during
my futzing I booted to DOS and ran the diagnostic on the card and (on the
advice of the diag) changed the settings.  What finally fixed the problem
was *removing* the 'options oi=0x300 irq=12" in conf.modules...  I'm not
sure I understand that; is the module autosensing?

-Alan
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