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I have used both linuxconf and control panel, trying to get linux to see my Realtek 8o29, which has a driver on my RH 7.0.
I have cable internet, also. THe DHCP, and cable, and ethernet howtos are helpful, but doing what hey say....I think I am missing an initial obvious step, and dont understand what to put for domain name, IP address...is that necessary with cable internet? Not sure of values needed in the networking setup I guess. Does it matter what my host name is? Should that remain localhost?
At boot, it looked for eth0, and said it failed becuase I/O ports may be wrong. I had entered those in Linuxconf as well, perhaps the syntax was wrong.
can u post the contents of /etc/modules.conf ( if ur using RH ).
this file normally maps the alias for the module of ur NIC and the network device ie; eth0 or eth1
check for the modules in /lib/modules directory (in some sub directory) ..... u can try the ne2k modules ( it might work)
maybe something is wrong with the IRQ or IO setting that ur linuxconf is doing by default. If u can confirm this then edit the file /etc/lilo.conf and put in appropriate irq settings with lines similar to ( u can check /var/log/messages file for all errors that occured during/after booting )
append="ether=11,0x300,4,0xne2k,eth0"
the explanation of above line is :
ether=IRQ,IO-ADDR, MODE(10baseT),CARD_TYPE,INTERFACE
NOTE : pls take all ur backups first and i dont gurantee that this will work .... just a hint ....serach on the net , get ur facts first and then try out.
Ok back now from being on linux, where running insmod ne2k-pci.o yielded a list of about five things "unresolved symbol", three of which were ei_open
ethdev-init
ei_interrupt...
wondering what this could mean.
the instructions I read all over the place seem like it should go smoothly, but something often comes up. It is frustrating because I am not stupid, but I have invested probably 18 or 20 hours trying to get winmodem (never happened) and now cable modem to work. I have upgraded my kernel partitioned my hard drive, installed two different distros, and I can't get sound card or get on the internet. Ok, I have blown off my steam. Thankyou for listening. This is my leisure time, and I am choosing to spend it thusly.
I wonder how people get their output from linux online here, but I have to come to windows to post, I don't think I could just cut and paste between operating systems. (Kidding.) (Or could I???!!!!)
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