On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:51:09AM -0500, DSC Lithuania wrote: > I have Debian 1.3, and managed to bring my system up with my 4 Megs of Ram > and 80386. Thanks, all for the help in that. However, I have two new questions > relating to a new problem. > > I still can't bring my CompexRL2000A card up. On the Drivers Installation > page, I can choose NE2000 , but it does not recognize the card. Now, I > also have not been able to get it working under Win95: the system at > one point uninstalled the PCI Bios driver, saying that PCI Bios was not > present. Which might be the source of the problem. Or, alternatively, > it may be that the Debian 1.3.1 installation's NE2000 driver is not the same > as the ne2k-pci driver. > > So does anyone know (1) Is my 386 motherboard BIOS too old for the > Linux drivers to interface with NE2000 card? (2) Is the NE2000 driver > presented on the installation pages old, and not the same as the ne2k-pci > driver? (3) Is there some other problem that I am missing, instead? Hmm, if this is a 386 I'd be surprised if it's got a pci bus - I've never seena 386 with a pci bus anyway :) So, I'm going on the assumption that you've got an ne2000 isa clone. There are known problems with these - some cards do not contain teh correct id string. I read this in one of the HOWTOs, the NET HOWTO IIRC. As a rule I don't use ne2000 cards cos I think they suck, so I can't provide much more help here :/ Good luck, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Inc. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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