Re: Basic networking setup

1997-08-08 Thread Dominic Davidson
Well. It seems that the problem with my network is hardware rather than software related. I initialised the cards from DOS, and there were some diagnostic utils too. According to the diagnostics, the 'Media Connector' or somesuch is a dud. The cables, t pieces and terminators are fine, so suffice t

Re: Basic networking setup

1997-08-08 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Dominic Davidson wrote: >The cards I am using are two NE2000 clones, manufactured by Trust and >with a RealTek chipset (according to Win95). They are PNP, but isapnp >seems to work, as does modprobe ne. ??? you need to give the io for modprobe

Re: Basic networking setup

1997-08-08 Thread Paul Wade
I have 2 cards of that type, but what I did was boot dos from floppy and then run the card setup utility to turn off pnp and set the ioport and irq values. Then I ran modconf to install the ne module. They work fine that way. I only use isapnp on devices that don't allow you to explicity set the va

Basic networking setup

1997-08-07 Thread Dominic Davidson
I've been trying to set up a *very* simple network with two peers recently. This is my first exploration into ethernet related issues under Linux. Before I get started properly, the FM's I have read are the NAG, NET-3-HOWTO and the Ethernet-HOWTO. The cards I am using are two NE2000 clones, manuf