network card

[timysemi]

I have installed RH 7.0 and it will not see the NIC that I have installed. I started with a 3Com 3c905b. It will not it at all. I then tried a Linksys that I had laying around (I know hehehe). When I run ifconfig eth0 ip address it tells me that there is no such device. Does anyone have any suggestions as to another card I can use or possibly a way to configure either of these. I am new to Linux, but I am desperately trying to get away from Winblows. Thanx

[Boris]

Okay, I'm not a Red Hat guru, but I ran into some prollems with my 3Com card the other day also. Have you modprobed (man modprobe) to see if there was a driver installed? Especially for the 3Com, make sure you pass the kernel option for the jack you want to use (which was my problem in the end, it was defaulting to a different port and wouldn't work until I passed 10baseT as a kernel option). Also, I'm not sure what file RH uses to keep track of it's devices (I run SuSE, which uses YaST for that, and at work right now, so no way for me to look it up-- :( ), but make certain that you have a manual entry in there.

Also, try moving the card to a different slot and see if it could be something as simple as a bad slot. :)

Of course, man ifconfig will show you how to add the mask, gateway, broadcast, et al once the device is at least recognized as existing.

I hope some of that was useful for you, and please, anyone else who may know more feel free to correct any mistakes I've made here.

Good luck!

[compunuts]

Make sure PnP support is disabled in your system BIOS and the card itself. go to any xTerm or Terminal window and issue "netconfig" command. Look into interface tab and configure there for your eth0 device.

HTH..