ethernet card (hamm)
I have decided to install something unixish on an old 486/33 which just
sits in the lab, which has a crashed MSwin311 installation and no one uses
it. I don't have much info on hardware but I've figured out most of it. The
network card has `SMC' printed on it so I choose the first SMC driver (I
think its called `ultra') and it detects the network card at 0x220 IRQ 10.
I installed hamm and it went very smoothly to just after the base disks
unpacking, where the machine locked up. Or at least I think it locked up,
it just sat silently with no `dialog box' on screen and appearently did
nothing for ten minutes, so I rebooted. I think this was the `configuring
modules' phase of installation. I just skipped this step and went on with
the configuration and installation of LILO.
Now I can't get networking to actually work. I can't ping anything except
the loopback (127.0.0.1) and my own IP address. Does the latter mean that
my network card works or does the packet never leave the machine?
`route' displays:
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
localnet * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 2 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 1 lo
default <correct> 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth0
Where `<correct>' is the correct IP of my gateway (I choose not to write
it down here of various reasons). It takes rather long time before the
third entry shows up, not minutes perhaps but many seconds. What does the
flags, metric, ref and use columns mean? I've compared the values with
other working installations so I suppose they are correct.
`ifconfig eth0' has the right IP, Bcast and Netmask -- but the wrong base
IO address. It says 0x230 and the module when loaded says 0x220. However,
when I try `ifconfig eth0 io_addr 0x220' it answers `SIOCSIFMAP: Operation
not supported'.
How do I proceed to locate the actual problem? (I mean: how do I find out
if the hardware is malfunctioning, if the module doesn't work with my card
or if there's a configuration problem?)
// Jonas <job@abc.se> [2:201/262.37]
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