Topic: PCI & ISA nic

[Sander]

I have a 3c905 pci adapter which I would like to use for my internet connection
and ne 2000 or smc 8416 for my lan. The E-smith server did not access the internet and the other computer couldn´t get an ip address from the server.

I have followed instrucyions from  these forums.
I connect to the internet through a cable modem & my ISP supplies me whith a static ip address using dhcp. In windows it works just fine.

How can I edit /sbin/e-smith/config

Sander

[Randy Brown]

did you disable plug & play on your isa cards?

[Sander]

Of course
it just would not connect with e-smith
ne 2000 is not pnp as far as i know
server detected the other at once(pci)


Sander

[Randy Brown]

lots of ne 2000 are p & p
you will have to get a dos utility to dissable it...
or life could be easy and you might be able to get by with dissabiling P&P  in your bios.

[Sander]

When I used that nic in a windows machine i had to "add new hardware" and it found it after a non plug and play test. other cards os finds itself.
My main problem is how can i get to the internet with the machine.

Is it possible for e-smith to respond to nameserver commands from my regional domain registrator. they want an ip address and the name of the namesever (ns.something.ee)

Can i use e-smith like connect to the internet with my pci card through a hub and supply other computers an ip address throgh the same hub. I know that windows allows it.

Sander

[Bruce]

Sander,

There are known problems with the NE2000 on every platform.  Basically, it was a "standards" card that never followed the standards.  For $15, you can go to any major computer store and pick up an SMC or Linksys card (I prefer the SMC) that is PCI and 10/100.  The SMC is recognizable under all versions of Linux, and should not give you any problems.

Also, you do NOT have a static IP address.  The very fact that your ISP is providing you an IP address by DHCP says they could give the address to someone else at any time.  If, on the other hand, they gave you an address to type in, that IS static.  You also need to look at the IP address a little closer.  If it starts with 10. or 192.168. or 172. there is a VERY good chance that these are private IP addreses being routed through the ISP's gateway.  This means that you'll never be able to reach the server from the outside world, and if you attempt to send e-mail to ANYONE at AOL, it will be rejected.  Also the DHCP address you receive is NOT registered as a named server, so you still won't be able to send e-mail to anyone at AOL.

[Jochen Hoegerl]

Sander wrote:
>
> I have a 3c905 pci adapter which I would like to use for my
> internet connection
> and ne 2000 or smc 8416 for my lan
>...................
> How can I edit /sbin/e-smith/config
>
> Sander

Hi,
to setup your ISA-Nic do the following:

1. Disable PnP of the NIC

2. Set I/O + IRQ of the NIC to free spaces of your e-smith box
    e.g. io=0x300 (300h) IRQ=5

3. Logon as root

Suppose your NE2000 is eth0 (eth1 is EthernetDriver2 )

4. /sbin/e-smith/db configuration set EthernetDriver1 ne2000
add the following lines to modules.conf using pico.

5. pico /etc/modules.conf

alias eth0 ne2000
options eth0 io=0x300

6. Save and exit ---> Ctrl-o ,  Ctrl-x
7. /sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save
8. Reboot

I gathered this from varius discussions here when I had to enable a unsupported
PCI-NIC which is the same procedure, except for the options line in modules.conf
which is not needed for PCI.
Hope this helps

Jochen