Dual RTL 8019 (ne2000 compliant) ISA problem
 

Hello, I have a aquired a box, and two ethernet adapters, both the same model, respectively RTL 8019, which are ne2000 compatible. I'm using RedHat 7.2 (due to the low-end computer), and I just can't get it to recognize the eths. They are both ISA, and I've tried setting them at boot to "ether=0x300,9,eth0 ether=0x320,5,eth1", but this doesn't work. The kernel has been recently recompiled to include support for ne2000. No matter what I try, I just can't get them to work, so if anybody has any sugestions... I'm listening :confused:

You need to configure the cards with isapnptools.

I've tried using isapnptools, with isadump and isapnp, according to the docs but to no succes. I've also set the BIOS iq 7-11 to Legacy ISa, but that didn't work either. The strange thing is that I can assign a local ip and ping it, but it won't work on outside hosts...

Try putting the IP of a nameserver in /etc/resolv/conf and ping again.

I've done that, but to no success... I'm off to buy 2 new PCI cards :)