Network Card Problems
 

I have an Intel EtherExpress Pro (10MBPS). I used to use Windows on the machine that contained this card, but switched it to Mandrake Linux 10. When I go into the control center and try to configure my internet connection (by Network and Internet>New Connection). I choose LAN connection, on net device I choose the only choice on the screen "manual choice", I chose "eepro" as my driver, and then told it to autoprobe. A small box then comes up and it brings me back to the net device screen, which again only has the choice "manual choice". Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions? These would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Also, I got my card out and looked it up on the Intel website. The information is:
352117-xxx Intel® PRO/10 ISA (TP) PCLA8220A Plug and Play

Open up a terminal and run (as root)
Does it display a bunch of stuff about "init_module: No such device or address" or "Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters."? If so, you probably need to specify IRQ and I/O settings.

--mascdman

ISA might be the problem
 

Part of your problem might be because your card is ISA (if I am reading the information you gave correctly). To get my ISA slot sound card to work on my old clunker machine I had to go through a few extra steps to get it working.

Have not had to do anything for my NIC card, so I can't be much help there except to suggest searching the internet (and LQ) for information on getting an ISA NIC card to work.

I had one of these working in a computer once. I can't remember what all I had to do.

Just because it is a PNP card does not mean it is in PNP mode. There is a little DOS utility you can use to set it. I usually take mine out of PNP mode anyway and set the IO and IRQ to fixed settings and write them on the card so I always know what I have. Also if this card has a choice of using "shared memory mode" (I think it does), it will perform much better if you put it in this mode (it uses some memory in the under 1 meg area on your computer, which was a concern in the old MS-DOS days, but not now with Linux.). Otherwise it will work like an old NE2000 card, which isn't very effecient.

See what the isa-pnp utility says it set the card up as, if it did, and then fill in the missing parameters in your modprobe eepro line like this:

modprobe eepro io=0x300 irq=10

This information actually belongs on an "option" line in /etc/modules.conf it turns out it is needed.

If you still need help, bug me some more and I'll dig up that card and see what it takes to make it work for you.