configuring ethernet card (ISA)

[rcgordon]

hey, I got a NE2000 network card and Redhat is not configuring it.
I am running Redhat 7.0 on that machine and am having problems.
on start up it says: eth0 delayed.

I have run netconfig and setup the IP's and everything, but when I run ifcfg or ifconfig, it says eth0 delayed.

I have 2 machine actually. both are dual boot, both have win98SE, and one has redhat 9.0. 9.0 won't fit on the other however and I have 7.0 (the problem) on that on. I am trying to network all machines and all OS's. any help would be appreciated. I have more problems to address, but most of them must wait.

One of them however, is getting Redhat to recognize the other machine through a hub and 100MB cables on my home network.

Also I understand that I can make the linux FS accessible from windows. How do I do this?

I am usually online, so PM's are ok, thanks everybody.

[DSwain]

do you know that the card is working/loaded modules by itself? find the module name out, and then open a terminal and try "lsmod" if its listed there, then that won't be a problem, and if it isn't, then try "modprobe {the modules name}" and that might do it.

[JohnT]

Post your /etc/modules.conf file, if you can.

[rcgordon]

I couldn't find a conf.modules, hope it was just a mess up, but anyway

"alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias usb-controller usb-uhci"

That's all that's in /etc/modules.conf

let me know what else you want to know

[rcgordon]

DSwain, I can't locate a module, Linux has no eth0 device,

it isn't recognizing it

don't know how to mount it

[rcgordon]

this is what I get for lsmod eth0:

Module Size Used by
ide-cd 23628 1 (autoclean)
pcmcia_core 44160 0
lockd 31176 1 (autoclean)
sunrpc 52964 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
agpgart 18600 0 (unused)
nls_cp437 3876 5 (autoclean)
vfat 9404 2 (autoclean)
fat 30688 2 (autoclean) [vfat]
usb-uhci 19052 0 (unused)
usbcore 42088 1 (usb-uhci)

[JohnT]

Is this a built-in ethernet or pci card?
This is listed in my /etc/rc.d/rc.modules:
### Network device support ###
# Most of these drivers will probe automatically for the card if you don't
# specify an I/O address and IRQ. But, the NE2000 driver needs at least the
# I/O. For complete information, see the net-modules.txt file that comes
# with the Linux 2.2.x source code. This file can also be found on the
# Slackware CD-ROM in the /docs/linux-2.2.x/ directory.
#
# First, if setup probing found a network card, there may be an 'rc.netdevice'
# file that we should run to load the network module:
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.netdevice ]; then
. /etc/rc.d/rc.netdevice

Then it list these options to choose from:
# NE2000/NE1000 support (non PCI):
#/sbin/modprobe ne io=0x300 # NE2000 at 0x300
#/sbin/modprobe ne io=0x280 # NE2000 at 0x280
#/sbin/modprobe ne io=0x320 # NE2000 at 0x320
#/sbin/modprobe ne io=0x340 # NE2000 at 0x340
#/sbin/modprobe ne io=0x360 # NE2000 at 0x360
# PCI NE2000 clone support:
#/sbin/modprobe ne2k-pci

[JohnT]

Can you bring up info for your eth0 with the commandifconfig ? If you can your IRQ and base address will be listed and you should be able to determine what module to use.

[rcgordon]

I don't have that file

it's an isa card (older computer 333Mhz)

do you think there is a package I forgot to install?

[rcgordon]

./ifconfig gets following:

{
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carriers:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

}

./ifconfig eth0 gets following:

{
eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
}

[Fryguy8]

i had an isa ne2000 card on my server. I don't remember the exact details, but you need to modprobe the driver with the irq and port as arguments. Search around the net for an ne2000 configuration utility. Boot from a floppy to dos and run it, set up the cards irq and port to what you want, and then pass these values on the command line to the ne2000 module and it should work.

sorry I can't be more detailed; it's been a while since I configured that card, and I no longer run the server or even have the computer so I can't have a look at my settings.

[JohnT]

If your bios supports this kind of info you might be able to find the irq and address listed for your card. If you still have windows on that machine look in device manager..it will give you the same info.

[rcgordon]

cool, I'll try it

everything works fine in windows, I have access to my other windows machine and vnc is working between windows also

I have redhat 9.0 working with vnc and windows, but not windows and redhat 7.0

and I need to mount the windows machine, so it's networked to the redhat file system, do you know how to do that?

thanks for your help so far, in the morning I will continue this quest :-)

[JohnT]

Originally posted by rcgordon
cool, I'll try it

everything works fine in windows, I have access to my other windows machine and vnc is working between windows also

I have redhat 9.0 working with vnc and windows, but not windows and redhat 7.0

and I need to mount the windows machine, so it's networked to the redhat file system, do you know how to do that?

thanks for your help so far, in the morning I will continue this quest :-) M/B in the morning I will..wait a minute..it is the morning. One thing at a time. :D Besides you need to start another post for that subject in an appropriate forum. Try this setup for your eth0 in the AM see if you can get it going.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by rcgordon

it's an isa card (older computer 333Mhz)


Have a look through these JL forum search results for 'isapnp' (http://justlinux.com/forum/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=948959&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending) as I've explained a few times what needs to be done for ISA cards.

[JohnT]

This one is a little odd-ball Mike......the card he has it requires you assign an irq and an address and use that on the "modprobe" line and pass those parameters....as there are about 5 modules only that will support........ that are irq and address specific.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by JohnT
This one is a little odd-ball Mike......the card he has it requires you assign an irq and an address and use that on the "modprobe" line and pass those parameters....as there are about 5 modules only that will support........ that are irq and address specific.

But if the ISA card has onboard jumpers or no jumpers and you need to use the dos based configuration utility to disable ISAPnP and change the resources to whatever you have available on your system, would that still not apply to this particular ISA ethernet card?

If 'device not found', I would tend to believe it's due to resource conflicts.

Would that not be the case JT?

[JohnT]

I was going for the "configure it in the bios" approach. To change both parameters there, but if that option is not available to him, then certainly jumpers would have to be configured. I think that "DOS" utility does the same thing you can do by editing CMOS. Yes...No???

[Fryguy8]

when i was doing mine, i just found it easier to search for a driver config utility, boot to dos from a dos bootdisk, and run it.

Of course, I was also doing a debian net-install, and wanted access to the card before I had access to tools like isapnp.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by JohnT
I think that "DOS" utility does the same thing you can do by editing CMOS. Yes...No???

The dos config utility allows you to disable ISAPnP which I believe is required for Linux and to change the irq, i/o and dma specifically on the ISA card as you would do with jumpers.

If those resources are 'hard' set on the ISA card, then there is nothing you can do in the system bios that will change the resources the ISA card is using.

Make sense? :confused:

[JohnT]

Well it all boils down to the fact is the card PnP compliant or not. if not it better have jumpers or DIP switches.:p

[JohnT]

HA!! Forgot this one...."isapnptools"..included on just about every distro I've had...:D Doc's and Downloads (http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/)