Hi guys, (and girls?)

I have installed Slackware 9.1 and WIN98 dual boot on an old-ish PC.

During the SW Linux installation the network card could not be detected.
While doing the WIN98 installation I learned that there were an IRQ clash on
the network card.

The network card is a NE2000 Compatible card.

I did the following:

1. Use the driver in /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/net/ne2k-pci.o.gz
2. Confirmed that this is the correct driver by running modinfo -d
ne2k-pci.o.gz
3. edit modules.conf. This file were empty, but I added the following line:
alias eth0 ne2k-pci.o.gz
options driver irq=10

{Why irq=10? During the W98 installation I got a warning "IRQ clash" The
default IRQ were 3 but I changed it to
10 in the W98 Setup. W98 shown IRQ 10 to be available. Oh yes the card
has no jumpers to change the IRQ/address
settings.}

(The installation is very basic with no KDE/GNOME or sound support which
probably explain the empty
modules.conf?)

So far so good? What do I need to do more to get the network up and running,
as I would like to
FTP, Telnet, and SAMBA into this machine.

Thank you, this newbie appreciate your assistance!!!!!

Regards
Jan

Jan Coetzer wrote:
> {Why irq=10? During the W98 installation I got a warning "IRQ clash"
> {The
> default IRQ were 3 but I changed it to
> 10 in the W98 Setup. W98 shown IRQ 10 to be available. Oh yes the card
> has no jumpers to change the IRQ/address
> settings.}

did that actually work?

> So far so good? What do I need to do more to get the network up and
> running, as I would like to
> FTP, Telnet, and SAMBA into this machine.

well, can you at least tell us what have you done so far, and what kind of
results you got? you were very detailed, but you skipped a couple of major
things:

a) did setting irq to 10 actually worked in win98
b) does the driver in slackware actually get loaded?
c) what does dmesg say when the driver gets loaded?
d) if everything gets loaded properly, then what's the problem?

"Jan Coetzer" typed:

> Hi guys, (and girls?)
>
> I have installed Slackware 9.1 and WIN98 dual boot on an old-ish PC.
>
> During the SW Linux installation the network card could not be
> detected. While doing the WIN98 installation I learned that there
> were an IRQ clash on the network card.
>
> The network card is a NE2000 Compatible card.

Is the network card on the ISA slot, Jan? If it is, the module has to
be loaded with an additional "io=0x{number}" parameter for it to
detect the card.

--
Ayaz Ahmed Khan

k everybody, its working... {I will just give a quick run-over of what
I
did, perhaps it will help
somebody out there.}

I did the following.

1. Had to edit a file /etc/rc.d/rc.modules -> Comment a driver in for
the
NE2000 compatible card.
{/sbin/modprobe ne 0x300}
(This cards seem to be tricky to get going)

2. ifconfig -a now showed the eth0 interface present.

3. I ran the netconfig utility and set it up for fixed ip at first.
This
produced problems on our
network, as I could not ping anything. I changed this back to
dynamic IP
{DHCP} and I could start ping-ing machines.

4. Next I had to edit the /etc/inetd.conf file
Uncomment the telnet driver

5. The last step was to start inetd. (I must still do this from the
start up
script, but I am confident that I should be able to do this as this
process is documented well.)

6. I can now telnet and ftp into this machine!

Thanks for the help! :-)

Jan

janc@liquidauto.co.za (Jan Coetzer) wrote in message news:<3d5e75ba.0407120434.7c96239a@posting.google. com>...
> Hi guys, (and girls?)
>
> I have installed Slackware 9.1 and WIN98 dual boot on an old-ish PC.
>
> During the SW Linux installation the network card could not be detected.
> While doing the WIN98 installation I learned that there were an IRQ clash on
> the network card.
>
> The network card is a NE2000 Compatible card.
>
> I did the following:
>
> 1. Use the driver in /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/net/ne2k-pci.o.gz
> 2. Confirmed that this is the correct driver by running modinfo -d
> ne2k-pci.o.gz
> 3. edit modules.conf. This file were empty, but I added the following line:
> alias eth0 ne2k-pci.o.gz
> options driver irq=10
>
> {Why irq=10? During the W98 installation I got a warning "IRQ clash" The
> default IRQ were 3 but I changed it to
> 10 in the W98 Setup. W98 shown IRQ 10 to be available. Oh yes the card
> has no jumpers to change the IRQ/address
> settings.}
>
> (The installation is very basic with no KDE/GNOME or sound support which
> probably explain the empty
> modules.conf?)
>
> So far so good? What do I need to do more to get the network up and running,
> as I would like to
> FTP, Telnet, and SAMBA into this machine.
>
> Thank you, this newbie appreciate your assistance!!!!!
>
> Regards
> Jan