Network card not detected

[Kelvin Koloko <Kelvin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks
the situation is like so:

I took the HD to a Pentuim 133 Box with 32MB Ram coz I kept getting signal 9
on the 486 8MB ram box(which means corrupt memory on motherboard - I have
experienced it a couple of times & on 100% of those times its been corrupt
memory chips)
The installation went fine and I have taken the HD back to the 486 box.
Everything works fine except it cannot detect the network card.
I took a thorough look in the Ethernet-HOWTO document and managed to
discover the network card as a "RealTek RTL 8019" its an ISA card.
Apparently its supposed to come with a Dos floppy containing a file which is
supposed to be used to disable pnp on the card so Linux can detect it, or
like you said use the ne2000 driver and play around with the
/etc/conf.modules.

I need 3 favours

1.Were do I get the file to disable PnP on the network card (The card was
bought about 3-4 yrs ago) and nobody knows the whereabouts of this "floppy"
2.How exactly do you disable pnp when you get this file?
3.In /etc/conf.modules you need to specify the exact IO address and IRQ to
use - how do I get this?

help!!!!!

Kelvin




-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew McGill [mailto:andrew@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 9:11 AM
To: Kelvin Koloko
Subject: Re: GLUG: Network card not detected


On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, someone (possibly Kelvin Koloko) said:

//snip
> I could not do the installation on this box initially because I kept
> getting signal 9 during the installation.
//snip
> It just wont detect the network card.
//snip

If you are getting processes randomly killed, it is possible that you have
not set up (or enabled) a swap file (or partition) (ie. you are running
out of memory with nowhere to go...)

You could try this:
	# Create blank file of 16M
	dd if=/dev/zero of=/boot/swapfile bs=1024k count=16384

	# Add the standard swap file signatures to it
	mkswap /boot/swapfile

	# Tell the system to use it as a swap file
	swapon /boot/swapfile

Network card?  If it is an ISA network card, you probably have to
configure it with the correct IO address in /etc/modules.conf (the irq is
usually detected without any problems).  If it is PCI, you probably need
to load the correct module ...

&:-)

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