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Re: Sarge & ISA NE2000: Solved



--- Chris Phillips <xhrisphillips@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have just installed Sarge on my old PII at home
> (after the fedora upgrade trashed the system).
> 
> The system is up and running, however I cannot
> figure
> out how to get the ISA NE2000 ethernet card working
> properly.
> 
> If I do a 
>  > modprobe ne io=0x340 irq=9
>  > ifup eth0
> 
> Everything works fine. However, if (for example) I
> just do a
>  > modprobe ne
> 
> I get the error:
> ne.c: You must supply "io=0xNNN" value(s) for ISA
> cards.
> 
> However, in /etc/modules.conf I have the line
> 
> options ne io=0x340 irq=9
> 
> Which I thought should do the same time. Can anyone
> suggest what I am doing wrong?
>

As suggested, the problem was solved by adding the
line 
        option io=0x340 irq=9
into /etc/modprobe.conf and
 

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