Forum Home
Press F1
 
Thread ID: 41133 2003-12-31 07:28:00 Getting ISA Nic's in Linux to work Chilling_Silently (228) Press F1
Post ID Timestamp Content User
204405 2003-12-31 07:28:00 I have an ISA NIC (DSE Cat #XH7597).

Im trying to run this on a P300 which has a broken onboard eepro100 Ethernet adapter. I cannot disable this in the BIOS. It gets picked up fine by the OS, but the connection cannot be made etc.
Basically the eepro100 is a dud.

Im trying to get the ISA NIC to work (sn2000 compatable - AFAIK it's using the "ne" driver).

How would I go about getting it to work?
lspci is obviously precious little use because its isa not pci
dmesg turns up nothing about it
Running:
cat /proc/isa
turns up a little info on the card.

What to do?

Cheers


Chill.
Chilling_Silently (228)
204406 2003-12-31 08:20:00 Tried the linux driver from the DSE Site?
www.dse.co.nz then click near the bottom (Drivers and Manuals obviously), choose the NIC and download V0.1 of the official Linux Drivers
cyberchuck (173)
204407 2003-12-31 08:21:00 Righto...
Well that was strange that the link didn't close properly, so:
www.dse.co.nz
cyberchuck (173)
204408 2003-12-31 08:56:00 Thanks, hadnt noticed the Linux one, only saw the bottom one "Windows for Workgroups"

I'll let you know how I get on :-)
Chilling_Silently (228)
204409 2003-12-31 09:02:00 Is it your Gentoo distro? Redhat and Mandrake seem to pick up ISA network cards ok (even Vector did). You may have to have a dummy eth0 and use eth1 (or the other way around). Dolby Digital (160)
204410 2003-12-31 09:32:00 > Is it your Gentoo distro? Redhat and Mandrake seem
> to pick up ISA network cards ok (even Vector did).
> You may have to have a dummy eth0 and use eth1 (or
> the other way around).
>
Vector Linux 4.0 on the P300... I dont actually have ISA on my Gentoo box ;-)

eth0 is already a NIC, but I dont wanna use it :-(
eth1 is what its _going_ to be

Downloading that Zip file just tells me what Ive already figured, I know that the io is 0x300, irq=3

I try running:
ifconfig eth1 up 192.168.0.12

Then pinging 192.168.0.12 works, but not pinging 192.168.0.1
If I type:
ping -I eth1 192.168.0.1, I get:
ping: bad interface address 'eth1'
That's a capital -i BTW

Any ideas?


Chill.
Chilling_Silently (228)
204411 2004-01-03 01:41:00 ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.12 up might work better ... just a thought.

Anyway, ifconfig with no arguments will tell you what the system knows.

If you have an onboard "card" which doesn't work, put a "alias eth0 null' in /etc/modules/conf . (assuming that all your NICs are compiled as modules).

dmesg will say if the card is recognised. "ne" can be a problem ... you might have to have an "option ne io=0x300 irq=3" in grub or the equivalent in lilo.
Graham L (2)
1