I've found that spending the $10 for a cheap PCI ethernet card is much better than spending lots of time making an old ISA card work properly. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Clay Fandre [mailto:clay at fandre.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 7:05 AM > To: tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] ethernet card in Debian > > > Benjamin Exley wrote: > > > > So I (finally) upgraded to Potato and kernel version 2.2.17. That's > > good, because now I can use ipchains. Unfortunately, ipchains is > > moot because my network card is no longer being detected. It is > > an SMC Ultra (ISA). It's not finding the card when it autoprobes. I > > know that that's not supposed to be a good idea, it always worked > > before. > > > > Does anyone know where I can tell it specifically the io, > irq, etc. of > > my card? I tried looking in /etc/modutils/aliases, but it > isn't in there. > > > > I'm trying to build this beast to be my home DSL-firewall. > The tricky > > part is that I will have a few static IPs behind it, but I > also want to > > serve DHCP (in the 10.0.0.255 range) for when friends come over. > > Obviously the 10's would have to be masqed. I think I can figure > > that part out, but you might be getting a few more random question > > from me before this is over :) > > > > > > Heh, it's funny that you should bring this up because I have been > fighting with the same card/problem at home for a few days now. RedHat > would find it and load it perfectly, but Debian2.2 wouldn't. I finally > figured out that I needed to use isapnp/pnpdump to get the thing > configured. Now it loads, but after a soft reboot it looses > it again. A > cold reboot brings it back to life. Maybe it's just my card, > but that's > unacceptable behavior. I will probably go down to BB and pick > up a cheap > LinkSys or something. > > FYI: > # pnpdump -c > /etc/isapnp.conf > Cross your fingers... > # isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >