Network card problems

[Erik Heil]

Hi.  Wouldn't the Eprom be configured if it already had Windows init the
card?  or does it have to be reset each time the machine is booted?  BC
those with Wake-on LAN support actually store the values in NVRAM.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Toby Fisher" <toby_fisher at bigfoot.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: Network card problems


> On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Alex Snow wrote:
>
> > I just got rid of dhcp, and have assigned all computers on the network,
> > including the linux box, ip addresses.  I reran netconfig and gave it
the
> > new ip address, netmask, and gateway.  Now when I type ifconfig I see
the
> > the net address is 192.168.1.101, that's what I assigned it.  Only
problem
> > is I still have no network support.  I can't ping the box, and I can't
> > connect to my router using lynx.  Could there be some configuration on
the
> > card that is messed up? Someone suggested that I run isapnp, but the
card
> > seems to be detected fine.
>
> If you are using an isa network card, as I think was mentioned earlier
> this week, you may first need to configure the card's eprom.  Usually, the
> card will come with a utility for DOS and Windows to do this.  If this is
> the case, the problem is that the network card does not know what irq and
> base address it is using, and thus Linux has no way to find it.
>
> HTH
>
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