Hi
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I've just successfully downloaded and compiled the source for my Ethernet card! It is now installed.
But (there's always a but isn't there), I'm experiencing problems with connecting to our LAN and hence the net.
We have three computers connected to ADSL through a router. Two of the machines are Win XP and mine is a dual-boot box with Win XP and Linux Red Hat 9.
When installing my ethernet card I copied the setting from the Win XP, which is: the card automatically gets its IP, IRQ 18 and a memory address. This info I copied into the network configuration on Linux.
Alas, Linux can't get an IP it seems. When booting it installs/recognizes the eth0 interface, but it fails with getting an IP.
In a terminal I tried to run 'dmesg | grep eth' and got:
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eth0: Broadcom BCM4401 100 Base-T found at mem ed8000, IRQ 10, node address 00e18
bcm440: eth0 NIC Link is up, 100 Mbps full duplex
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
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One thing about this puzzles me: At Windows my card is IRQ 18 and not 10 (which I've also entered into the Linux RH network configuration tool).
Some ideas?
I've been searching the net but so far none of the proposed solutions has hepled me.