LAN PCI Device

seamus

K, I bought me a pair of cheapass Intel Pci Ethernet cards and shoved them in(1 to each comp). Plug and Play Compatible, blah blah, Windoze loved them. I only have rh7.2 Linux on one machine for the mo. It's a old PII with 16megs of ram, and no atx power (yes it's that old). Linux cannot see the card. Still being a newbie, I have no idea about makefiles or probing, or anything. an 'ifconfig eth0' or 'ifconfig ether0' gives me an error - interface not found. Is it the cards, or am I missing something? Do I need to do some kernel tweaking, or have I just no hope with these cards? tx

lynchie

Frist check that Linux is picking up the card by examining the output of "cat /proc/pci" If it is there, it means the kernel has seen the card. Secondly, you need to load the driver for the card. If you are using the default stock kernel with rh7.2 (i.e. you havent built your own kernel) the driver should be already available. Try google to see if you can find out what driver your card uses. You can try the following command to load all network drivers "modprobe -t drivers/net \*" Check your /var/log/messages to see if one of those drivers worked. You should see some sort of initialisation/splash messages for the driver.

Once you know what driver to use just run linuxconf or netconfig to set up your network.

sisob

Originally posted by seamus
Still being a newbie, I have no idea about makefiles or probing, or anything. an 'ifconfig eth0' or 'ifconfig ether0' gives me an error - interface not found.

I would reccomend mandrake - it will pick up the cards automatically - and is a lot easier to use than redhat.

Mark

flamegrill

try running ./dev/MAKEDEV from your / directory or in the /dev directory type ./MAKEDEV, note: its important you use capslock, it is case sensitive.

also:

# Intel EtherExpress Pro support:
#/sbin/modprobe eepro

# Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 PCI support:
#/sbin/modprobe eepro100

# Intel EtherExpress16 support:
#/sbin/modprobe eexpress

the above modules shoud probably work, well one of them might taken straight from rc.modules, probably /etc/modules.conf or something smelly like that on RH.

happy networking.

Regards,

Flamey

seamus

Ah I love the boards. I'm pretty sure something there should work...... I forgot to mention that I can't use XWin for the mo, 'cos the vid card isn't supported, which ruled out netconfig.
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Tks all

Typedef

Seamus.
Update X from http://xfree86.org
get umm Xinstall.sh I think for the more pertinant version of X that resides there.

Regards your LAN card.
Type
lspci as root and post it's results here, I guess someone if not me will be able to find the right driver for you to use.
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seamus

That won't be loads of use Typedef. I have no net connection to the Linux box, so all of my posting is done in college. So it'll take too long to save text and repost blah blah. I'll try the other stuff first and take the long route if it doesn't help. Tks anyway, n1

sisob

what's the video card? there are very few cards totally not supported.

Also for things like XFree86 4.2.0 and kernels and stuff check out linuxemporium.co.uk - beats 56king them down.

seamus

still having this prob, although it's gotten a little more interesting. Upgraded to rh7.2/KDE (it was rh7 I had before).
Being a lazy bastid, I'm using KDE's GUI's for configuring most stuff. The Hardware browser informs me of an 'unknown device' that it calls "Intel 10+/Pro adapter". Adding a new network device, using any Etherexpress module results in a 'cannot initialize device" message, although it does ask me for a whole pile of settings, DMA, IO, etc that I can't provide. Any stuff said above don't work for me
tx