Topic: Detecting Ethernet Cards

[Con]

I am having trouble getting e-smith to detect my network card when I install. I am installing on a Pentium 166. My network card is a D-Link DFE 550 TX.

Before I installed I re-set my bios defaults. I then changed the OS to non-PnP, and enabled the FDD's. I have looked at all the settings I can think of, but I don't really know much about bios.

When the comp boots up it can see the network card, as it tells me the PCI slot that it's in and the IRQ, but the e-smith will not auto detect it. I manually selected a driver however, when is has finished installing I can not get a ping from it even if I specify an ip address and subnet mask.

What have I done wrong?

[Joey P]

does /root]#/sbin/ifconfig ethx   says its up?

try  /sbin/lsmod      and see if the module for your card is loaded
and is actually being used by your card.

i had the same problem before, the 3com (pci) that i was using
shows up in ifconfig but i can't ping to/from the same box.

then i found out that the irq it is using is being claimed by
the pci modem.  i reconfigured the lan card's IRQ and everything
was ok.

try  /root]#cat /proc/interrupts

to see currently occupied interrupts and check if your card owns
the IRQ that its claiming during bootup.

[Con]

I tried /sbin/ifconfig and it didn't detect anything.

/sbin/lsmod didn't detect anything eigther.

cat /proc/interrupts indicated that it is looking for the cards on IRQ 14 and 15, so I re-configured my bios to assign IRQ 15 to my network card and my comp wouldn't even boot up! It got up to where it usually detects a boot floppy and just hung (not tring to detect the floppy). After that I re-configured the bios to assign IRQ 14 to my network card, then it would start the usual boot sequence (including starting the server) but then hung again when it came to detecting the network card.

is there a way to get it to look for a network card on IRQ 12 or any other IRQ except 14 or 15?

[Andrej]

IRQs 14 and 15 are used by IDE controler !!! (reason for NOT booting it up) Use some configuration soft which works under DOS and reconfigure NIC to IRQ 5,9 or 10 (12 if you are NOT using PS2 mouse).

Andrej