Debian Network Howto
I'm having trouble getting my Debian network
(ethernet) up and running.
Brief background:
I have an smc 8216C card. On same system (dual boot),
Windows98 finds the card as strapped (io=0x300
irq=10). Redhat 6.0 found it with the smc-ultra
driver.
On Debian install, I couldn't install the smc-ultra
driver, it would fail. I did install the required
8390 first, but smc-ultra failed. As a result, I
couldn't fill in the network menus, and no eth0 device
was created.
After the fact, I found that on smc cards, sometimes
the ne or wd drivers work. I'm unable to install any
of them, ne, wd, or smc-ultra (having installed the
8390 they depend upon). This is with either modprobe,
or direct insmod with options io=0x300 irq=10.
What could be so different about Debian that on this
architecture it will not find the network card, when
Windows and RedHat can? Some kind of weird BIOS
setting? An error in the smc-ultra or wd drivers?
Any pointers appreciated.
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