Topic: 2 ISA NE2000 NICs

[miked]

Hello All,

Here is a good one for you Unix guru's I have 2 ISA NE2000 NICs
NIC 1. irq=10 io=0x300
NIC 2. irq=5 io=0x280

Now I have searched this message board and found two fixs for my problem but I can net get them to work. I have even tried using combinations of the two (this is beacuse one post said to put irq and the other didn't plus one used alias name other used eth0 etc)

What my question is HOW CAN I GET THESE NICS WORKING WITH E-SMITH?

I know the irq info etc works because it worked under windows. Please keep in mind I know very, I repeat VERY little about Unix but I can follow instruction so if someone has a step by step solution please let me know.

If not, my next step is to buy two PCI NICs. Can you recommend a good brand/model?

Thanks in advance
miked

[TomG]

Had similar problems with ISA NE2000s...

I am no Unix Guru and a little fiddling did not fix the problem, so swapped to a pair of 3COM 905C-TX-M. They are 10/100 PCI and have given me no problems with W9x, W2k, Netware 3.x, Caldera, and e-smith. I have never tried to use the wake-on-lan features under Linux though.

For what little its worth,
T.

[Hartmut Trepkau]

in /etc/modules.conf add:

alias eth0 ne
options ne io=0x300 irq=10
alias eth1 ne
options ne io=0x280 irq=5

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

EthernetDriver1=ne
EthernetDriver2=ne

re-boot and you are done

[miked]

Thanks,

Do I actually type EthernetDriver1=ne or do I use the eth0 and eth1=ne in the configuration file?

I used the eth0=ne and the eth1=ne and I can ping the server now.

Thanks for your help
miked

[miked]

Thanks for that, I used Hartmut Trepkau post and irt seems to work.

Thanks again

miked

[miked]

Thanks, Disregard my earlier message. I found the correct lines in the /home/e-smith/configuration file.

Now I have rebuilt this server two times now to make sure I have the configuration right. The local network works fine but I am not sure how to test the external. It obviously does not work because I can not ping outside my network.

How can I find out what is wrong? When I shutdown the server it comes up with some network information (goes to fast to read all) but I can see it is the irq and io for eth1 which works on my local network (I thought eth1 was external, does this matter?) but nothing on eth0.

Is there a problem that both cards are the same except for irq and io but use the same driver ne as per your instructions? I tried changing ethernetdriver and alias to ne0 and ne1 but I had no luck.

Thanks again for your help

miked