Re: 3rd Call for help - Lost network card after Potato Upgrade
Thanks for all of the help!
I ended up removing the ne module and replaceing it with the io=0x300 irq=3 specified in
the options.
I can now telnet to my system, so I think its fixed! I will check it out the rest of
the way in the morning,
Doug
THANK YOU!
Doug
Jim wrote:
> The easiest way for us to fix this would be by running modconf. Hopefully
> nothing else is broken (which we'll find out soon).
>
> As root, run:
> modconf
>
> Then go to "net" and then "ne" and enable the module for your card. The
> reason you aren't detecting the card? modprobe will generally only detect
> PCI cards, unless you tell it the address to search. In your case, your
> card's address is 0x300 and you will need to specify this as one of the
> options in modconf. You will need to use:
>
> io=0x300
>
> as a command-line option for the module.
>
> That will probably take care of everything. If not, let us know what
> troubles you run into and we'll go from there. :)
>
> On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the reply.
> >
> > I am not sure if I was using module or kernel for the network card. I have had
> > this system for awhile (potato is the third debian distrubution I have used, and
> > the network settings were setup at the very beginning. How would I tell? The
> > current kernel version seems to be 2.0.36
> >
> > The /etc/init.d/network files is the same as it was before the upgrade, what
> > should I be looking for? For me to post it, I would have to type it in on this
> > windoze machine.
> >
> > Doug
> >
> > Mark Wagnon wrote:
> >
> > > On 07/17/99 10:48 PM, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
> > > > Hello, I hope someone can help me with this. It seems like it should
> > > > not to hard to fix, but without any knowledge of how or where the
> > > > network services are started / initialized, I don't think I will figure
> > > > it out without help.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hmm. I;m not how much assistance I'm going to be but here goes. Do you have
> > > support for you NIC either compiled into your kernel or as modules?
> > >
> > > What does your /etc/init.d/network file look like? This file is where you set
> > > up your network devices.
> > >
> > > I hope this gets this thread started, because I'veonly had my computers
> > > networked for a couple weeks and I'm still figuring things out.
> > >
> > > late
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