Network card problems

[Alex Snow]

No I think the values are stored in eeprom on the card.  This card is an
etherlink3, and the date on the card is 1992 I think.
Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm
sick of Winblows!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Heil" <eheil at rcn.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: Network card problems


> 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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