Topic: ISA NICs and modules.conf

[Sander]

I installed E-smith. Then i had to configure the network. This is a problem because i have a PCI NIC and an ISA NIC. during the setup program e-smith askes from me what cards do i have. It detects the PCI card but what i must put for my isa network adapter?
I have ne2000 or smc ether EZ (8416) they both are supported by e-smith.
For installing the ne NIC in the setup program i put that the driver was ne2k-pci.
After installation i tried to change the cards driver to ne, but e-smith owerwrote it back to ne2k-pci.
it did not overvrite options ne irq=5 io=0x300
or woud it have been betteer if i had written the above line like this:
options eth0 irq=5 io=0x300  ?

Why is that some say I edited /etc/modules.conf and others /etc/conf.modules
what is the difference?

where must i change the card driver(besides modules.conf and so that it would not get overwritten) I have disabled PnP.

[Hartmut Trepkau]

in /etc/modules.conf add:

alias eth0 ne
options ne irq=5 io=0x300

in /home/e-smith/configuration set the variable:

EthernetDriver1=ne

re-boot and you are done

[Sander]

thank you for your advice. it did not get overwritten.

The card still does not work. I thing that my irq and io settings might be a little off, so i wonder if you have somekind of a configuration utility with what to configure ne2000. Or where could i get one.

Thanks anyway

Sander