smc 1660 and mandrake 7.2

[wurmy]

well i tried getting redhat to work and was unable. so i now have Mandrake 7.2 on my system and i've gotten a little farther but am still having trouble. it sees my card in HardDrake. I/O is set to 210 and IRQ is 3. but when i try to run the configuration tool is gives me a modprobe error saying it can't find/load eth0. how do i fix that? i think i've almost got it to work....(i hope).

wurmy

[sssadams]

Here are the official steps from smc.You could skip some of them if you have the ne2000 module compiled allready(check /lib/modules/kernel#/net).My smc cards use the tulip module and all get configured easily.Having your card on irq 3 means its sharing it with com 2 and 4.

The procedure to activate rtl8019 on linux :
Hint:RTL8019 is ne2000 compatable.

step 1: make sure that kernel source code is included check /usr/src/linux)

step 2: recompile kernel:
cd to /usr/src/linux, them type 'make xconfig'

select the following options(mark them as'*')
.enable module support
.networking support
.TCP/IP networking
.nettwork device support
.ethernet
.ne2000/ne1000 support

step 3: after options are selected, exit and run make dep;make clean;make bzImage;
if no serious error happens, the new kernel 'bzImage' will be in
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage.
copy this file to root.
modify '/etc/lilo.conf' file to point to this new file.
run 'lilo'
reboot

step 4: when system boots, the driver will be load. then the driver will scan {0x300,0x280,0x320,0x340,0x360} port to see if a card is there.
(you can run 'dmesg' to see the boot message)
ps: in some case, PNPISA may assign ioports not in the range. you
can use 'rset8019' (in DOS) to set the card in jumpless mode and set ioaddr to one of these ioport.

step 5: run netconfig to setup TCP/IP
(run 'ifconfig' or 'netstat -i' to see if there is a interface ne0')

a little long http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif but maybe someone here has the same card and can give you some tips