Re: 3rd Call for help - Lost network card after Potato Upgrade
hello, i am new to this list, and love debian.
tyler@sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
> 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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> > >
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