Network Card Problem (3Com Etherlink III ISA NIC 3c509)

[NegativeZERO]

I'm having some troubles getting this ISA nic installed, I'm running RH 7.3. I did some searching and found what module to use. The correct modules is 3c509.o.

I go to the directory:
/lib/modules/linux-2.4.18-3


The I do a "grep 3c modules.dep" to find the module, I see I have it so then I can set it to load.

Then I "modprobe -a 3c509" and it said something about adding or loading it.

I use "ifconfig" to check the ether net adapter. I then use netconfig eth1 to set up the information IP, DNS, and stuff. Then I do a "ifconfig eth1" and it dosent show any thing other than the hardware info. It seems not to save the settings that I set for the nic.

So I go ahead and add it to /etc/modules.conf and try to bring up the eth1. After I do this I still have no setting in the eth1, I can do netconfig eth1 and save the serrings and it dosent save them.


I'm wanting to use this box as a gateway so I need boath nics to work. I have this ISA 10mb nic for my incomming connection, I have a D-Link 530TX+ for my lan side of connections. For now I only want one other computer connected so I would use a crossover cable right? But when I hook up to my switch I would use my strait cable.


If any one could help me out a bit as I'm still pretty much a nob and am doing this for a learning experince.


Thanks

[z0mbix]

Originally posted by NegativeZERO
I'm having some troubles getting this ISA nic installed, I'm running RH 7.3. I did some searching and found what module to use. The correct modules is 3c509.o.

I go to the directory:
/lib/modules/linux-2.4.18-3

The I do a "grep 3c modules.dep" to find the module, I see I have it so then I can set it to load.

Then I "modprobe -a 3c509" and it said something about adding or loading it.

I use "ifconfig" to check the ether net adapter. I then use netconfig eth1 to set up the information IP, DNS, and stuff. Then I do a "ifconfig eth1" and it dosent show any thing other than the hardware info. It seems not to save the settings that I set for the nic.

So I go ahead and add it to /etc/modules.conf and try to bring up the eth1. After I do this I still have no setting in the eth1, I can do netconfig eth1 and save the serrings and it dosent save them.


I'm wanting to use this box as a gateway so I need boath nics to work. I have this ISA 10mb nic for my incomming connection, I have a D-Link 530TX+ for my lan side of connections. For now I only want one other computer connected so I would use a crossover cable right? But when I hook up to my switch I would use my strait cable.

With regards to the cables, yes, that's correct.

I use the same card in one of my boxes and it works fine. You'll need to disable pnp in the bios. I had problems with this once when I forgot to disable it.

Is there any reason that you are not using the /sbin/service network start|stop|restart options instead of doing it all manually?

The network settings can be configured in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX file.

Also, what do you have in your /etc/modules.conf.

This should help you out:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/ref-guide/ch-networkscripts.html

[NegativeZERO]

PnP is disabled, I did that first off lol.

Well I guess netconfig dident make an
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
file. I created one manuly and set my settings in it.

Here is what I had.


DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=static
ONBOOT=yes
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=198.196.0.1
USERCTL=no



Then I brought up eth1 and it worked great. I guess I just needed the file and it wasnt there.


Thank you verry much for the help!

[z0mbix]

Originally posted by NegativeZERO
PnP is disabled, I did that first off lol.

Well I guess netconfig dident make an
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
file. I created one manuly and set my settings in it.

Here is what I had.

Then I brought up eth1 and it worked great. I guess I just needed the file and it wasnt there.

Thank you verry much for the help!

Excellent! :)

Strange that netconfig didn't create that file :confused: