Hi I am a relative new to Linux and am having problems with my Linksys Ethernet Card. Originally upon boot the eth 0 search would occur (but the adapter would fail to initialise. I checked via ifconfig whether the adapter had an Ip address (it didnt) so I set the adapter to 192.168.1.1 (again via ifconfig) all seemed fine.
When I rebooted the adapter still failed during boot but now when i tried to use the ifconfig command to set an Ip address to the adapter I get the following error

192.168.1.1: error fetching interface information: Device not found

I have checked if the adapter is recognised via the GUI Hardware browser and it staes that the Linksys adapter is installed, however when using the network configuration tool all it picks up is my modem and when I try to select a card from the list of ethernet adapters to add I just get told my adapter couldnt be initialised.
Also now when I boot there is no attempt to find the Eth0 adapter. Please help me I am unsure what else to do!!!!!!

this may not help at all but:


I have 2 of the same adapters in my box now, I am using RH 7.2 and both installed just fine by themselves when i installed Linux. The only time i get FAILED during boot is when there is nothing connected to the NIC. Are you sure you NIC is plugged into something else?? i.e. a router or another computer.

Absolutely sure, its plugged into the Linksys 5 port EtherFast Hub which in turn is connected to a Win 98 PC with the same TX100 Ethernet Card.

-Make sure the card is physically installed correctly.

-Turn off Plug-N-Play support in your BIOS if you haven't already.

-Run lspci and verify that the card/chipset is correctly identified in the Ethernet Controller info.

-cat /proc/ioports should show the card and/or module assigned to a non-conflicting address range.

-cat /proc/interrupts should show eth0 assigned to a non-conflicting IRQ.

-If any of the above fail, try putting the NIC in a different PCI slot.

-lsmod shows that the correct module is loaded. If not, do modprobe modulename. To load the module at boot, put the following line in /etc/modules.conf:
alias eth0 modulename

-Assuming static IP addressing, /etc/sysconfig/network should contain the followingand /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 should contain at least:

Thanks;

Plug and Play is disabled in Bios (Had to disable to get sound card recognised)

Card is installed in PCI Slot correctly (Shows up in Win 98 and works perfectly)

IOPorts >OK (No conflicts)

IRQ > Card not present at all

The card also still isnt present in the Network configuration tool

I have also tried lsmod and get the following output: -

Module Size Used by
ppp_deflate 41760 0 (autoclean)
bsd_comp 4352 0 (autoclean)
ppp_async 6768 1 (autoclean)
ppp_generic 19392 3 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async]
slhc 5504 1 (autoclean) [ppp_generic]
emu10k1 49584 0 (autoclean)
soundcore 4464 4 (autoclean) [emu10k1]
binfmt_misc 6416 1
autofs 11584 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ipchains 39232 0
ide-scsi 8320 0
scsi_mod 95792 1 [ide-scsi]
ide-cd 27040 0
cdrom 28640 0 [ide-cd]
mousedev 4448 1
hid 19120 0 (unused)
input 3840 0 [mousedev hid]
usb-uhci 21600 0 (unused)
usbcore 51808 1 [hid usb-uhci]
ext3 64624 2
jbd 41056 2 [ext3]

I cant see the network card installed (but I havent really any experience with modules either) If you now what module I need to load please let me know.

Also If you have any other suggestions please post again.

Ok I have now managed to get my Linksys Ethernet Card running in RH 7.2

I used instmod to install the tulip module and then used ifconfig to set the IP adress of the card.

I will say one thing it feels great after having Linux installed for only 3 Days to have solved my first major problem.

(Thanks for the help)