Topic: isa cards

[hanscees]

I was just going to install when i red isa cards are not supported.

Is there a way to get a ne2000 isa to work or a 3com509?

I am afraid my computer simply does not have pci.

Is this a dead end?

greetings

hc

[Andre Couture]

Your right, they are not "natively" supported... but they are!

Here are two ways do configure your ISA card;

1- manually

-use the interface to configure a "dummy" card
-then edit /home/e-smith/configuration
 find the "dummy" driver and replace it by your appropriate driver
-then edit /etc/conf.modules and do the same.


2- via e-smith scripts;
for example you want to configure the eth0 as ne2000

/sbin/e-smith/config set EthernetDriver1 ne2000

That's all folks!

enjoy

Andre

[hanscees]

ok, I've tried this

1 I did
/sbin/e-smith/config set ethernetdriver1 ne

2.
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save

3. echo options ne i0=220 irq=9 >> /ect/conf.modules

but that was wrong so i did

3. echo options ne i0=0x220 irq=9 >> /ect/conf.modules

then I rebooted but only interface io is loaded

So perhaps I need to get rid of the mistake I typed into conf.modulkes but i do not know how to edit in e-amith console?

also did I do something wrong because modprobe does not show ne.0 (the card is a ne2000 isa)

and insmod ne gives errors like

unresolved symbol ei_open
and so on

somebody??

[Charlie Brady]

hanscees wrote:

> ok, I've tried this
>
> 1 I did /sbin/e-smith/config set ethernetdriver1 ne

The config utility is case sensitive. So you need to do:

/sbin/e-smith/config delete ethernetdriver1
/sbin/e-smith/config set EthernetDriver1 ne

> 2. /sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save
>
> 3. echo options ne i0=220 irq=9 >> /ect/conf.modules

Presumably you mean /etc/conf.modules.

Note  that the irq is optional if you provide the I/O address - autodetection seems to work reliably, so you are better giving no IRQ than risking an incorrect one.

> but that was wrong so i did
>
> 3. echo options ne i0=0x220 irq=9 >> /ect/conf.modules
>
> then I rebooted

You also need to do:

/sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save

> but only interface io is loaded
>
> So perhaps I need to get rid of the mistake I typed into
> conf.modulkes but i do not know how to edit in e-amith console?

Use the editor called "pico":

pico /etc/conf.modules

> also did I do something wrong because modprobe does not show
> ne.0 (the card is a ne2000 isa)
>
> and insmod ne gives errors like
>
> unresolved symbol ei_open and so on

Delete the incorrect stuff from /etc/conf.modules, then do:

modprobe ne

It should load OK like that, which will verify that you have the correct options. Then do the "console-save" thing, then reboot.

Charlie

[hanscees]

we are almost there I think. When i do
modprobe ne
this shows
eth0: ne2000 found at 0x240, using irq=9

However, when I reboot there is still only interface3 io and no interface eth0

Now perhaps I dod something wrong in the admin console. There i configured the server as a gateway with two ethernet cards because i want masquerading. But perhaps i should choose standart server first?

greetings

Hans-Cees

[hanscees]

sorry, I wrote Ethernetdriver1 instead of EthernetDriver1

It occurred to me when i checked the configuration file: there were three entries.

I now have an interface eth0!!

cool

[Jose Q]

so where can i get the driver that i need?
(ne.c)

[Jose Q]

so where can i get the driver that i need?
(ne.c)