need drivers for linksys ether16 isa PnP lan card

[Max Powers]

im on a cable modem and mandrake 7.2 doesnt have the drivers for any linksys cards in it by default. does anyone know how to get them? :confused:

[PLBlaze]

Is the card NE2000 based?I got mine working with ne.o module.See if you have it in your modules/net directory and try modprobe ne or get the source from
scyld's networking section (http://www.scyld.com) and compile it.Hope this helps.

[bdg1983]

Since you have a ISA nic, I would suggest you use the dos based configuration utility that comes with your ethernet card (or can be downloaded) and turn off the cards PnP and change the IRQ and IO on the card to ones that are available on your system. This should allow the nic to be detected and the correct module loaded.

[Max Powers]

nether of those things worked, and theres no instructions on using the driver download from the linksys site and i dont know enough about linux to know what to do with them. theres 2 unix drivers in the download. one called scounix and one called unixware. heres the files that each have:

SCOUNIX
Driver.o
info
init
reconf
remove
setup
space.c
system


UNIXWARE
driver.o
setup
setupisa
space.c


does anyone know what to do with those? :confused:

[Dru Lee Parsec]

Not sure what specific drivers work on your card, but I've found that just about every Linksys card workes with either the ne2kpci driver or the tulip driver. Try each of those. You might get lucky.

This worked for me just 3 days ago when setting up a new machine at work.

Good luck.

[Max Powers]

ive tried the ne2000 drivers, but they dont work, and its an isa card so pci drivers prolly wont work. ill try the tulip ones though.

[Max Powers]

i dont have any tulip drivers on my system. is there a site u download them from? :confused:

[bdg1983]

Did you run the dos configuration utility that always comes with a ISA network card?

Like I previously posted, try the utility, turn off the nics PnP and change the IRQ and IO to ones that are not in use by anything else in your system.

When you reboot your nic may be detected and the correct module loaded. No modules will load if you have resource conflicts.

I've never had to do this procedure myself, but there are ways to find what resources are available. Perhaps someone here can post the commands. Something like 'cat /proc/ioports' and a few others.

[Max Powers]

i tried that, but i didnt check to see what io ranges arent being used by anything else. when i did it, neither linux or windows recognized the card. ill try looking to see what io ranges are available

[bdg1983]

I did a search in the Networking forum for 'cat /proc' and found a few.

cat /proc/pci
cat /proc/interrupts
cat /proc/ioports

and

pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf

'man pnpdump' should tell you it's use or do the same search as I did and read the posts for suggestions.

[Max Powers]

thanks ill look at that

[PLBlaze]

Max,

Is this (http://linksys.com/support/display.asp?biggie=big_lne2000.jpg&prid=23&grid=10) the card you have?

Mine is just like that one but with no 10baseT connector...
TO get the card working under Linux,make sure to run the dos util and assign IRQ,I/O addresses as mdwatts suggested ealier or you will not be able to use it with PNP on.


Finally use modprobe ne io=0x280 where io=value is the one you've set with dos util.Once you follow the steps we outlined here, your nic should be recognized and ready to configured...Hope this helps.

[Max Powers]

yea thats my card. i assigned the right io and interrupt values like mdwatts said to, (on my comp its 240 and 3) but i didnt use the mod probe. ill try the mod probe thing. so i just open up the konsole and type 'modprobe ne io=240'? the only problem is, when i turned plug and play off, windows stopped recognizing it, and i need both of them to recognize it. i guess as long as one of them is working i can get to this site to find out why the other isnt and how to fix it :D

[bdg1983]

What do you need Windows for now that you have Linux?

I'm sure there's a way to please both.

[Max Powers]

Originally posted by mdwatts:
[B]What do you need Windows for now that you have Linux?
B]

games. linux is great in almost every way, except theres barely any games for it compared to windows. ill prolly start using windows less and less, though, cuz i dont even play games that often ;) :rolleyes:

[PLBlaze]

Modprobe is recommended because ne.o module depends on 8390.o.If you intend to use insmod then you will have to load 8390 before ne.o.

listing of lsmod:

$/sbin/lsmod

Module Size Used by
ne 6732 1
8390 6420 0 [ne]


Since you disabled PNP on the nic ,reinstall the driver and reconfigure the card in networking section or just simply remove it from device manager and let windows install it.Hope this helps again.

[Max Powers]

sorry if this is a newbie-ish question, but im a newbie :D. how, exactly, do i run modprobe? do i open the terminal and type:

$/sbin/lsmod

Module Size Used by
ne 6732 1
8390 6420 0 [ne]


:confused:

[bdg1983]

Did you get it figured out yet?

Try 'man modprobe' at the commandline for more info. I'm not sure myself how it works.

[Max Powers]

i tried that, but im not quite sure what it meant. it said the command was 'modprobe [ <something in here>] module [system=value(or something like that)] and then a bunch more '[something]'s.' sorry for the highly technical language ;) but im a newbie to linux and im not looking at the man page right now. i looked around, and there was a NHF for installing a different (PCI) linksys card, but it said to cd to some directories that didnt exsist on my system, so i cant use that. this is really pissing me off, too, cuz the real reason i switched to linux was to do web design. :mad:

[bdg1983]

Modprobe is recommended because ne.o module depends on 8390.o.If you intend to use insmod then you will have to load 8390 before ne.o.

I believe what PLBlaze is saying is you can using either modprobe or insmod. Since I know less about modprobe, how about trying

insmod 8390
insmod ne io=0x340 # where io=your io address

Not sure if 'io' is required or you also need the irq.

Give that a try for now.

Have you done a thorough search for perhaps 'ISA' in the major forums here? You may find other examples.

[bdg1983]

From one of my books.

insmod - Inserts a specified module into the kernel.

depmod - Creates a dependency file for use by modprobe.

modprobe - Loads modules from a list generated by depmod.

Try 'man depmod' to see how it's run and give it a try. See what output you get and see if it works with modprobe.

[Max Powers]

ok thanks

[Max Powers]

Update

still not workin :( in hard drake, it recognizes it as a xerox SE2000, but when i run the config tool in harddrake it doesnt change anything. it still sais xerox SE2000. also, i have the NE3170(or some number close to that(not 2000)) installed and configured to match my server. if i try to select ne2000 from the list, it comes up with a message saying "found ne2000 hardware, do you have any more?" or something like that, but when i click no, it just goes back to the list of drivers. i dont see any reason why it shouldnt work, but then again, i am a newbie. ;)

[Max Powers]

btw, if i try to go into linux without plug and play enabled, it doesnt recognize the card at all. if i try to tell it theres one, it still doesnt find it. and, in linuxconf, theres an option to search for isa plug and play devices, but it still wouldnt work after i did that. :(

[Max Powers]

well, theres good news and bad news.

the good news is, im posting this from linux.

the bad news is, i feel like a dumass. the reason it wasnt working was cuz i spelled my IP wrong in linuxconf. :(
i guess the good sorta outweigh the bad ;)

[Max Powers]

the only problem is that now whenever i start linux i have to search for isa plug and play devices and then i have to restart the network. o well

[bdg1983]

You should be able to load the modules automatically everytime you boot. Try /etc/modules (I think).

The question has been asked often here. Searching the forums should give you the correct answer.