David Mascot wrote:
Wow! Haven't dealt with ISA in a long time.I recently installed Red Hat 8, for the first time, onto an old Dell Demension. I can't get the NE 2000 ISA Ethernet card initialized. I don't have any drivers for this card, but I do have a dos program on a floppy that allows me to configure the card to any I/O address and IRQ. Currently I'm trying IRQ 10 and 300 I/O.From the Red Hat desktop I selected "system settings", then "network" andthen the "hardware" tab. I pressed "add" and selected the NE1000-NE2000 from the dropdown list. Then I inserted the configuration of IRQ 10 and I/O 0X300. When I hit "o.k." I get a message that says the card "cannot be initialized". Am I missing some steps, or doing something wrong? Sure would appreciate some help. Thanks, David
1. Try dmesg |grep 2000 and see if you see anything
2. do a cat /proc/interrupts and see if you see the card, and if you do, if it has an assigned IRQ
3. do a cat /proc/interrupts and see if the ioports match what you configured with the DOS setup program.
Looking at the RedHat HCL, it looks like the NE2000 is compatible http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=details&hid=4428
try the above, and post the results.....do you have a PCI slot available? PCI NICs are cheap, these days and they're faster, easier to deal with.....:)
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