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On Mon, 12 May 1997, Ed Webster wrote:

>> I have linux (slackware ) installed on a Toshiba 5200 laptop, all
>> working fine except for the only reason for it existing - it will not
>> recognise the ethernet card, I have tried with a WD 8003 EP and an
>> NE2000 clone,  which works on my other Linux box.
>> The system does not see the card on boot up, no error messages are
>> reported.
>> I have tried the ne2k diagnostic from Don Becker's site  and that
>> reports the NE2000 correctly on IRQ 5 and 0x300 as set on the card.
>> Both of these cards work  fine when booted on the Win3.11 system on
>> the same machine
>> Any ideas ?

In kernel version 2.*.* they went to hiding the NE2000 cards in the
configuration script. Once you get into networking cards it will ask you
about 'other ISA cards' with the default being 'no'. You've got to take
'yes' and then you get a whole bunch more cards, including the NE2000.

Recompile the kernel with that enabled, and your probe should see it.

-= Jim =-

ed@rutcom.demon.co.uk (Ed Webster) writes:

> I have linux (slackware ) installed on a Toshiba 5200 laptop, all
> working fine except for the only reason for it existing - it will not
> recognise the ethernet card, I have tried with a WD 8003 EP and an
> NE2000 clone,  which works on my other Linux box.
> The system does not see the card on boot up, no error messages are
> reported.
> I have tried the ne2k diagnostic from Don Becker's site  and that
> reports the NE2000 correctly on IRQ 5 and 0x300 as set on the card.
> Both of these cards work  fine when booted on the Win3.11 system on
> the same machine
> Any ideas ?

Modify this and put it into your /etc/lilo.conf:
    append = "ether=11,0x240,eth0"
or pass the ``ether=...'' to the kernel by whatever means you use for
booting.

Maybe you could restrain yourself to one or two news groups 
next time?  Also, ``aus.computers.linux'' is an Australian news group,
hence the ``aus.''   ;-)

Cheers,
-- 
Manfred Bartz <mbartz@werple.net.au>
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This is Linux country - where other operating systems just get emulated.

Ed Webster wrote:
> 
> I have linux (slackware ) installed on a Toshiba 5200 laptop, all
> working fine except for the only reason for it existing - it will not
> recognise the ethernet card, I have tried with a WD 8003 EP and an
> NE2000 clone,  which works on my other Linux box.
> The system does not see the card on boot up, no error messages are
> reported.
> I have tried the ne2k diagnostic from Don Becker's site  and that
> reports the NE2000 correctly on IRQ 5 and 0x300 as set on the card.
> Both of these cards work  fine when booted on the Win3.11 system on
> the same machine
> Any ideas ?
> 
> Ed

Try to mention the address and interrupt of your card at boot time
to linux like this:

LILO: Linux ether=5,0x300
------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This should force Linux to look explicit at this address for an ethernet
card. If you know the addresses of the shared memory, you can them also
mention, e.g.:

ether=5,0x300,0xd0000,0xd4000,eth0

Dirk.

It's 13 May 97  11:50,
We'll return to balcomj@daddy.com and All's
discussion of Boot Probe not seeing Ethernet card

 ba> In kernel version 2.*.* they went to hiding the NE2000 cards in the
 ba> configuration script. Once you get into networking cards it will ask
 ba> you about 'other ISA cards' with the default being 'no'. You've got to
 ba> take 'yes' and then you get a whole bunch more cards, including the
 ba> NE2000.

This dates back at least as far as 1.2.13.  I got caught the first
couple of times I compiled a kernel. :-)


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It's 13 May 97  08:30,
We'll return to ed@rutcom.demon.co.uk and All's
discussion of Boot Probe not seeing Ethernet card

 ed> I have tried the ne2k diagnostic from Don Becker's site  and that
 ed> reports the NE2000 correctly on IRQ 5 and 0x300 as set on the card.
 ed> Both of these cards work  fine when booted on the Win3.11 system on
 ed> the same machine
 ed> Any ideas ?

Try putting an ether= parameter in at the boot: prompt when LILO comes
up, and see if that works (look up LILO docs for the exact syntax).

... Flawed to perfection :-)
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