Greetings from South Africa...

I'm still a newbie, but I have to echo what everyone here will probably agree with... "Linux kicks ass!!!!" ...only one problem though.

I have two Network cards in my machine, one is an asound 10/100 which uses an 8139 chip and the drivers that I got with it are fealnx.c and fealnx.o respectively. The other card is an NE2000 compatible. Linux has 8139too.o or so Linuxconf tells me when I try to set up the cards, I also have 8139.o which is all fine and great but I can't get either of these cards to work!!!

I have tried to everthing (except recompiling the kernel) and looked everywhere, but no luck!
And I know that both cards work on my Win2K drive! I can't ping myself (i.e. not my loopback address but the address I assigned to eth0 and eth1)

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? Any info would be great...

Thanks...

PS when I try to assign a driver to either card from Linuxconfig ne displays as ne(install) or something to that effect... what does that mean anyway?

1) NEVER use linuxconf, it has a very wobbly history, screwing things up all over the place.

for the 8139 chipset use the 8139too driver, just make sure yo have a line saying "alias eth0 8129too" in your /etc/modules.conf and netconfig or any similar program should be fine with just that.

AFAIK all you should actually need to do is use netconfgi to create a /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file that reads approximately like...

with that you should be able to just "ifup eth0" in a terminal and be away....

Thanks very much... I tried your advice, but something else seems to be happening.

When I try ifconfig with no extra commands to test the network cards (eg. ifconfig eth0) I get a message that reads as follows:

eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

That happens with both of my cards. Does anyone know why this might be happening?

Thanks again.

was that 8129too or 8139too? typo...

Thanks,

Yeah we all make typos but I managed to figure out which one you meant though so all is cool... But I think I MAY (and I stress that I'm most likely wrong) have figured out what the problem is with my network cards is... still haven't found a solution though.

I assume that Linux just really does not like my choice of cards.
I've just removed the one to see if there was some sort of conflict between the two cards, but no luck!! :-(

I've just started reinstalling Linux, and from what I've gathered if my card is detected I would be given the option to set up the Network info from the installation but I don't get that...

I kept my NE2000 in which according to the Redhat HCL is compatible.

Hopefully someone out there knows what's going on, 'cause I sure as hell don't.

Thanks for all your help though!!!

Jason

well the error you are getting from ifconfig is logical if you've not managed to start the interface... try ifup-ing it....

Thanks for all your help Chris...

I went home yesterday with a Realtek 8029 and set that card up on my home system with no problem...

Kudzu popped up the minute Linux booted up which is great 'cause now I'll just get an 8029 card from one of the machines at work and use that on my Linux machine. Hopefully that will end my problems!

Jason.

that's very strange, i've never had a moments problem with any cheapo 8139 card... maybe you got unlucky with the one you had.

Actually, it was the NE2000 that was giving me all the problems... well both of them were actually. But everything is working fine now.

Thanks Chris...

Jason