Topic: Supported NICs not detected

[Andrew Roberts]

I have two Linksys LNE100TX cards that show up in the supported list, but e-smith doesn't seem to be able to detect them.  I had a look at the RH hardware compatibility list, and these cards are supported with the tulip module.  I can't seem to get them to work even when I specify this driver.  Is this problem related to having identical cards?  I do have another supported card in another machine that I can swap out if this is the case.

Puzzled....

Andrew

[r.bos]

Do you use ISA or PCI cards?
The ISA cards are not plug and play and nearly not supported.
I bought the PCI cards who where in the supported list.
Hope this is the right answer.

[Justin Lee]

I had the same problem.  I bought these cards installed with no go.  took them back and bought another pair of "supported" cards still no go.  Some advice:  Go with unsupported cards they installjust fine .  I bought 2 used 3com 3c509 cards and they work great.  Just a couple of extra steps to take but nothing painful.  I have the instructions if you need them or you can search here for them.  

Justin

[Andrew Roberts]

The Linksys cards are PCI.  Some digging brought up the fact that the rev 4.1 cards are _not_ supported in RH Linux 7.0.  Not knowing how to recompile new drivers, I swapped these cards for other ones (a 3com and a dlink).  Things are wokring now.