[H-GEN] NIC Setup and Mounted Volumes too!

[Michael Anthon]

Some more info required... NE2000 PCI/ISA/PnP ??
Have a look in /etc/conf.modules, there should be a line such as "alias
eth0 ne", try fiddling with it with options as follows

	alias eth0 ne
	options eth0 io=0x300 irq=9

The irq entry can normally be left out since the ne module will
auto-probe for the IRQ given the io address.  If it's a PCI, then it
will be ne2k-pci instead of ne.  Also, have a look at the Ethernet
HOWTO.  Its really quite well written.
http://www.tams.com.au/howto/Ethernet-HOWTO-3.html

For the partition problem, edit /etc/fstab.  You could either remove the
offending entry of edit it to mount it as vfat.

Hope this helps.

Regards
Michael Anthon

TAMS Systems


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Bower [mailto:scottb at itxperts.com]
Sent: Thursday, 26 November 1998 12:54
To: HUMBUG General (E-mail)
Subject: [H-GEN] NIC Setup and Mounted Volumes too!


Still making great headway with my Anti Microcrud push, I actually have
two issues I could use a hand with.

First up, I have a Red Hat 5.1 Distribution which is having problems
finding the correct NIC settings when autoprobing an NE2000 compatible
card on Startup.  I'd really like to know what I could do to manually
set it (config files, etc) and other devices under Linux when a Hardware
change is made as I wasn't able to set it up correctly when I originally
installed this distribution. this system still dual boots to WinCrap 98
where it works just fine.  I can find a Wealth of info on setting up
networking, routers, web servers, FTP servers, mail servers and stuff
but had absolutely no joy finding a simple instruction on setting up a
poxy network card.

the Next one will probably seem just as simple but again,  I'm still
coming to terms with an unfarmiliar (yet poweful, flexible and
wonderfully Oh so NOT Microsux) environment.  Another 5.1 installation
has a problem where I added another drive and conceded a mountable Linux
partition to the ever increasing Windork 95.  I need to tell Linux to
not attempt mounting the now Fat32 partition as an ex2fs, (Great
complaints from the Kernel about an Error during mount and is it a Zero
Length Partition or something and drops me to a maintenance shell
without completing the environment initialisation).  where will I find
these configuration files for the boot environment and in fact any
information on configuring hardware on startup.

Hey, I know, maybe someone knows of a Born Again Linux/Unix Users Guide
for the NT MCSE and CNA/CNE, I'd kill for one ... anybody?