Topic: ISA network cards

[John Halla]

Hi Guys !!

Please help me, I've been trying to set up e-smith with 2 ISA network
cards and can't seem to get it working.  I've looked through all the
past notes on this discussion board and got some great ideas, I was
even at the point where I had one working and had an internet connection
(not any more).

This is what I have:

compaq 575 w/1 pci and rest isa
my nics are in slots 2 and 3 both are isa
have a cybersurf modem on the @home network

nic in slot 2 is realtek 8019 it uses the ne driver it is set to irq 10
and io 340
nic in slot 3 is the 3com 3c509b it uses the 3c509 driver it is set to
irq 11 and set to 380

I've run the dos tests on the cards and they both pass

I have done the following in e-smith

config set EthernetDriver1 ne
config set EthernetDriver2 3c509

edited the conf.modules file and added the following

alias eth0 ne
alias eth1 3c509

options eth0 irq=10 io=0x340
options eth1 irq=11 io=0x380

then i saved the file and ran the following:

/sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save
/sbin/telinit 6

when e-smith comes back up it now says they both fail, but I've had it
so that the realtek comes up ok but the 3com fails, and I can't figure
it out.

I'm a newbie to linux so I could be doing something wrong.

Can someone please give me a step by step and things to look out for.

thanx

[Charlie Brady]

John Halla wrote:


> config set EthernetDriver1 ne
> config set EthernetDriver2 3c509
>
> edited the conf.modules file and added the following
>
> alias eth0 ne
> alias eth1 3c509
>
> options eth0 irq=10 io=0x340
> options eth1 irq=11 io=0x380

I'd suggest that you allow linux to autoprobe the IRQs, so
do this instead for your options:

options ne io=0x340
options 3c509 io=0x380

If that doesn't work, post the output of these commands and we'll see what we can spot:

/sbin/lsmod
/sbin/ifconfig -a
netstat -i

And keep an eye on /var/log/messages for clues as to what is going on.

Regards

Charlie

[John]

Got it working

It appears it didn't like my 3com card for some reason, I had one pci slot that I was going to use for a video card but I put a pci nic into it instead and it liked it.

thanx for all your help.

John