Re: Ethernet Card Config (Followup)


Subject: Re: Ethernet Card Config (Followup)
From: Ed Jaeger (ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com)
Date: Wed May 17 2000 - 15:43:27 MDT


http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html

John Price wrote:
>
> We've successfully installed YDL 1.2 on our Starmax clone and in the PCI
> bus hardware listing (cat /proc/pci) it shows an Ethernet card "Realtek
> 8029 rev. 0 using IRQ 23, I/O @ 0x1000. Using "ifconfig eth0
> 192.168.1.1" I get an error message saying the eth0 device was not
> found. Using "less /var/log/dmesg" there is nothing in the list that
> looks anything like an Ethernet card. I've tried adding alias eth0
> rtl8029 to my conf.modules file but that does no good. It appears I
> need to find the correct Linux driver source code for this chipset and
> compile it in YDL. I'm not quite sure where to get it or how to
> import it and compile/install it. Any suggestions or pointers from here
> would be appreciated.
>
> ~John Price~
> jprice@floop.com
> http://www.floop.com

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Ed Jaeger, CFO, Bohlender Graebener Corporation
ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com
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