On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 11:48 -0500, -=Brian Truter=- wrote: ... > Yes, you are right there, lspci wont help much, hehe. > > To be honest with you, I am not sure how you would get the ISA netcard > running. Im sure someone here would be able to, though. I would assume it > would be in a similar manner. > > That would explain why it wasn't autodetected, however. > > Grabbing a PCI card would definitely make your efforts easier. I recomment > getting an Intel based card, everything supports them, and I have never had > any troubles with them. Im sure there are many that fit that bill, that is > just my personal experience. Looks like Red Hat dropped support for this card. At best you will have to locate or build the ISA ne [possibly ne2000?] kernel module. If I read the kernel-source .config correctly it's not selected by default. To build your own kernel, you need to install kernel-source (yum install kernel-source) and compiler (yum install gcc) if not done already, and then build a custom kernel (or module) and select "Device Drivers/Networking support/Network device support/Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)/Other ISA cards/NE2000/NE1000 support" in gconfig. For a beginner, I'd recommend an absolute minimum of changes. Process goes something like this: ------------------- Kernel compile/install script ------------------ #!/bin/bash # /root/bin/make_linux # Kernel build steps: # 1. Unpack the sources or install kernel-source<version>.i386.rpm # and cd to source directory (ex: "cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358") # 2. make mrproper # 3. Recommended - copy the .config file from configs/ or from your # old linux kernel source tree to new kernel tree (may save time, # if you want to reuse the old settings). # (ex: "cp cp configs/kernel-2.6.5-i686.config .config") # then "make oldconfig" # 4. make xconfig # 5. make dep (not required for 2.6 kernels) # 6. make # 7. make bzImage # 8. make modules # 9. make modules_install # 10. make install # 11. configure LILO or GRUB. # 12. Optional - make clean (If you want to free up disk space) # This script implements steps 6-11 for FC2 (make && make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install && make install) >& /tmp/MakeKernel.log ------------------- Kernel compile/install script ------------------ Inspect /tmp/MakeKernel.log for errors - just look at the end. If there are no error messages then chances are you are OK. Reboot and pick the new kernel from the grub menu - it will have the same version as current RPM kernel, but with "custom" appended. If the new module is not loaded may have to add a line to /etc/modprobe.conf like "alias eth0 ne2000" (I think this will be the name), but should show up in a find command: [root@tabb1 root]# cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358 [root@tabb1 linux-2.6.5-1.358]# cd /lib/modules/`uname -r` [root@tabb1 2.6.5-1.358custom]# find kernel/drivers/net -name "ne*" kernel/drivers/net kernel/drivers/net/ne2k-pci.ko (hopefully right along here) kernel/drivers/net/wireless/netwave_cs.ko kernel/drivers/net/netconsole.ko Leave off the ".ko" suffix in the alias entry. Good Luck! Phil