[plug] Detecting NE2000 during installation (Red Hat)

[Kai]

Funny, Red Hat 5.2 never had any trouble detecting, configuring and
installing my NE2000 clone card ? what's changed in 7.0?

If you watch very closely during bootup does it say something to the
effect of:
Delaying initialisation eth0 NE2000 PCI [insert I/O and IRQ info here]
?

Once your machine boots, have you tried this as root:
[root at yourmachine root]# ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
up
(of course replace 192.168.0.1 with the IP address you want your card to
have)
then check /var/log/messages for any info that relates to the eth0
interface.

For a much more in dept look at how to configure your ethernet
interfaces, check here:
http://www.linux.org.au/LDP/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO/index.html
and check under the section that details how to configure your ethernet
interface.

I think you might want to check if your NE2000 is at the address you're
refferenced, correct me if I'm wrong but that can be done by typing:
cat /proc/interrupts
and checking for the NE2000 info?

I hope that's useful to you.

/Kai

Lex Edmonds wrote:
> 
> I have been unable to get Linux to recognise my NE2000 during installation.
> The most recent distribution I tried it with is Red Hat 7.0.
> 
> I usually use \DOSUTILS\AUTOBOOT.BAT rather than creating a boot floppy, or
> booting directly off the CD.
> 
> I have tried it with a number of NE2000-compatibles, all of them ISA
> (rather than PCI).
> 
> After installation, I have ended up adding a 'modprobe ne io=0x300' to the
> top of rc.networking, but I get
> the feeling that there must be a better way of doing it.
> 
> ** Is there some way I can tell the install script to recognise my NE2000,
> so it will configure it correctly?
> A command-line parameter I can use?
> 
> ** If not, is my method of updating rc.network the best (ie recommended)
> way of doing it.
> 
> Any clues would be gratefully received,
> Lex