Topic: Help neaded setting ip ISA NICS

[slewis1972]

Hi,

I am a newbie and nead some help. I am setting up my NICS and have 2 ISA ones.

Now, I have set them as per instructions on e-smith web site but every time I boot I get an error in conf.modules saying with is decapated???

I have set conf.modules:-

alias eth0 3c509
alias eth1 ne
options eth0 io=0x240
options eth1 io=0x300

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Any ideas where I matbe going wrong. ( The NICS are 2com 3c509b and a NEC2000)

[sander]

Do not set up any kind of isa nics by the settings which you believe.

i weasted two days on figuring out what the problem was.

Always look up a configuration utility and check the addresses.

you MUST disable pnp in both of the cards as they wont work using pnp mode.

and you must specify the irq address too.

hope this helps.

sander

[robert]

slewis1972 wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am a newbie and nead some help. I am setting up my NICS and
> have 2 ISA ones.
>
> Now, I have set them as per instructions on e-smith web site
> but every time I boot I get an error in conf.modules saying
> with is decapated???
>
> I have set conf.modules:-
>
> alias eth0 3c509
> alias eth1 ne
> options eth0 io=0x240
> options eth1 io=0x300
>
> ---
> Any ideas where I matbe going wrong. ( The NICS are 2com
> 3c509b and a NEC2000)
io and irq can be a problem, but in my experience drivers are pretty good at figuring those out by themselves. So, I would first just tell the system which drivers it needs to load and see if that will do the trick. This means you do not edit conf.modules manually, but let the general configuration file update it for you. This also prevents conf.modules from being overwritten at the next reboot.
Here's what I would do:

-Delete the options for eth0 and eth1 from conf.modules.

(-Optionally delete eth0 and eth1 aliases from conf.modules)

-Go to a root prompt and type:

/sbin/e-smith/config set EthernetDriver1 3c509
/sbin/e-smith/config set EthernetDriver2 ne
(or the other way around, depending on your setup, read the manual)

This step will update /home/e-smith/configuration. You can check it if you like.

-Activate the new configuration:
-Log in as admin to get the menu screen and go through the configuration sequence, which will now include your newly added ethernet drivers.
-When you're done reconfiguring the system, conf.modules will have been updated to include aliases for eth0 and eth1.

If it doesn't work, you can start messing around with irq and io settings. You should probably not edit conf.modules directly for that, but rather its template (read the manual).

[RS]

E-smith documentation states you should use PIC NIC cards.  I believe the NE2000 is for Novell networks....I could not get one to work in an NT server several years ago.  Get a couple of cheap PIC cards and SME should install without problems.

[RS]

oops, meant PCI NICs in last message.