[ale] RH 8.0 won't recognize my NIC

[Cameron Childress]

Yeah, that's the thing - I bought them today, so they are brand spanking
new.  Came with Drivers for RH 6 and 7, but not 8.  The natsemi mod should
work though.  Any other ideas?

-Cameron

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Cameron Childress
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> There may be an interrupt conflict. If the card was made at the same
> time as the old clunky box was, it may need to have some jumpers moved
> around. If it's an early PCI card, many were not auto-play jobs and had
> to have an eeprom set with a (usually DOS) program.
>
> It may be easier to grab a pair of $10 (or $2 used) cheap nics (RealTek
> work OK, not speed demons but great for DSL sharing) and install them
> one at a time so you can easily get the MAC address and IO ports for
> correctly designating which is internal and external nic.
>
> On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 21:22, Cameron Childress wrote:
> > Relative Linux newbie here - so go easy on me...  I'm
> attempting to install
> > and configure RH 8.0 as a simple Firewall/NAT/DHCP for my DSL
> connection and
> > small home network.  The machine I have installed it on is an
> old Packard
> > Hell Pentium I, and everything seems to have gone fine with the
> > installation, except for one thing...  I can't for the life of
> me get it to
> > recognize the network card(s).  Right now I have taken out the
> second one
> > and am attempting to get it to recognize one card.
> >
> > What I have done so far:
> >
> > /etc/modules.conf has the line "alias eth0 natsemi" - which
> should be the
> > driver module for the card, a PCI Netgear FA311 10/100.
> >
> > I've also run netconfig, and have configured the network settings.
> >
> > I'm in the process of pouring over a couple of Linux books and
> have found a
> > few other interesting bits of possibly relevant information.
> After running
> > "cat /proc/ioports" I found that the system had two entries for
> the network
> > card:
> >
> > fc00-fcff : National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815
> (MacPhyter) Ethernet
> > Controller
> > fc00-fcff : eth0
> >
> > I also found that when I ran "less /proc/interrupts", I found
> entries for
> > the mouse, keyboard, etc - but it didn't have any IRQ entries
> for the NIC at
> > all.
> >
> > The specific error I get when I restart is:
> >
> > Bringing up interface eth0 : Failed to bring up eth0.
> > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy.
> >
> > Anyone have an idea of what might be wrong, or what else I might
> > check/try/configure?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -Cameron
> >
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