NE2000 Help!!

[Magnus_Lei]

I am installing mandrake 8.1 and i am telling it to use my ne2000 compat. card with an irq of 10 and 320. It says i need to pick a number between 1 and 4i. Can someone explain this to me. It also has bad listed beside irq and io. What is bad?

Thanks

[DMR]

Er? "Pick a number between 1 and 4i". That's a new one on me. What is the exact model of the card? Off the top of my head, it sounds you have a resource conflict, but a little more info would help. Can you get through the installation by ignoring the messages for now? The NIC setup can probably be sorted out later, once you complete the rest of the installation.

[Magnus_Lei]

Yes, i have passed that part of the install. Now i need to go back and setup the card. It is a NE2000 Compatible network card set at 10 and 320.

[DMR]

I understand that the card is an NE2000 compatible, but what is the exact make/model of the card (and what chipset does it use, if you know)?

Post the output you get from the following commands (so we can check for conflicts:

cat /proc/interrupts
cat /proc/ioports
lspci
lsmod

If there are no conflicts, this howto (http://www.linuxheadquarters.com/howto/networking/networkconfig.shtml) does a good job of walking you through the manual installation steps for the ne2k-pci (NE20000) driver. Alternately, in Mandrake you can use the graphical configuration tools linuxconf and/or netconf to choose your driver, set your IPs, etc.