installing ethernet card problem

scc28y · 02-09-2004, 09:42 PM

Hi, I am one of those unfortunate souls with an ISA ethernet card.

My card uses AMD PCnet-ISA 79c960 chip. It is supposed to use the lance.o driver.

I modified my /etc/modules.conf and added the following lines:

alias eth0 lance
options lance io=0x340

Then, I saved the new modules.conf and did a modprobe eth0

The error message tells me that insmod /lib/modules/2.2.16/net/lance.o failed

I also tried io=0x320, io=0x300, and io=0x360

None worked.

Could someone please be kind enough to help me!

Stanley

DrOzz · 02-09-2004, 09:51 PM

looking around i am noticing the ne2100 working more so than lance ...
so, try the ne2100.o module rather than lance.o one ....
and see if you have any sucess ...
i am not sure if you have it or not, so you may have to recompile your kernel and add support for it...

scc28y · 02-09-2004, 10:17 PM

Hi, does anyone have the ne2100.o module? Could you please tell me where I can get it? I only have the slackware distribution which only has the lance.o module

thx