Potato Install, Modconf, and a SMC (Western Digital 8013 ISA) NIC

[Scott Fraser <sfraser@myra.com>]

Afternoon folks,

I am in the process of configuring a new Debian server, and have been
informed that I have to use a SMC (Western Digital 8013 ISA) NIC. We do
have these NICs running under Red-Hat Linux in-house, but I have
convinced the powers that be, to let me migrate from RedHat to Debian.

Here's a low-down on the box....
P-166MMX
Microstar MS-5156 mainboard
128 MB of RAM
Adaptec 29160 SCSI adapter
Quantum Hard Drive - Atlas
USR ISA Internal Modem
Cirrus Logic 1MB Video Card
Western Digital 8013, ISA (SMC Chipset)

The NIC is jumpered to IRQ-10, IO=0X300 

modconf fails no matter what I try and do with this NIC, and yes, I have
tried a second NIC I know works forsure.

Thanks in advance all,



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