If this is with a 3Com, I had this same problem. 3Com cards come out with
PnP enabled. Go to their website, download the newest drivers. There's an
exe on the first disk called something like 3c50xcfg.exe. Run that, disable
PnP, then load the module - it worked for me.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nitebirdz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 12:23 PM
> To: redhat list
> Subject: Re: NIC howto
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote:
>
> > Is there a NIC howto? I installed RH6.2 but was never prompted to enter
> > the NIC info. such as IP address etc.
> >
> > So I guess I'll have to set it up manually....
> >
> > I usually fill in the info at install time and my NIC works happily
> > after that...
> >
>
> Check out the Linux Networking-HOWTO and also the Linux Ethernet-Howto at:
> http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/NET3-4-HOWTO
> http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO
>
> In any case, if you were never prompted to enter any network config
> information it may be because the NIC was never detected by the
> installation routines. I've never had any problems with that in Red Hat,
> since the install program is quite good. You may want to check and make
> sure that there is no IRQ conflict.
>
>
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