Is this card supported

Is this card supported

[Alex Snow]

Hey All,

I found a working netgear ea201 isa pnp ethernet card in one of the machines
here.  Is this card supported by slackware 8.1?
Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm
sick of Winblows!

Re: Is this card supported

[Adam Myrow]

The only way to find out is to try it.  Since it's ISA PNP, you might want
to add a line like "/sbin/modprobe isa-pnp" near the top of
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules.  This will run a module that probes for ISA Plug 'N
Play cards and sets them up.  Put it before the execution of the
rc.netdevice script which is near the bottom of the file.  Then, either
reboot or run rc.modules manually and try netconfig and see if it can pick
up the card.  I've found that the isa-pnp module in the 2.4.X kernels is
more reliable and less error-prone than the older ISAPNP tools that were
required in 2.2 and older kernels.

BTW:, I just checked in the Ethernet Howto, and it mentioned a Netgear
card that works with the 3COM driver.  However, it was only a brief
mention.  Good luck.

Re: Is this card supported

[Alex Snow]

This card is based on the ne2000 chipset, or at least that's the driver that
winblows gave it.
Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm
sick of Winblows!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Myrow" <amyrow@midsouth.rr.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: Is this card supported


> The only way to find out is to try it.  Since it's ISA PNP, you might want
> to add a line like "/sbin/modprobe isa-pnp" near the top of
> /etc/rc.d/rc.modules.  This will run a module that probes for ISA Plug 'N
> Play cards and sets them up.  Put it before the execution of the
> rc.netdevice script which is near the bottom of the file.  Then, either
> reboot or run rc.modules manually and try netconfig and see if it can pick
> up the card.  I've found that the isa-pnp module in the 2.4.X kernels is
> more reliable and less error-prone than the older ISAPNP tools that were
> required in 2.2 and older kernels.
>
> BTW:, I just checked in the Ethernet Howto, and it mentioned a Netgear
> card that works with the 3COM driver.  However, it was only a brief
> mention.  Good luck.
>
>
>
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Re: Is this card supported

[Adam Myrow]

In that case, I believe the NE2000 chipset is well supported in Linux.
Like I said, give the ISA-PNP module a shot at setting the card up and
then run netconfig.

Re: Is this card supported

[Alex Snow]

Well I found a pci nic in another box, it's a network everywhere based on
the tulip module.  It should work once I kill the 3com driver, then it
should work (the new card is eth1 and slackware expects it to be eth0
Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm
sick of Winblows!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Myrow" <amyrow@midsouth.rr.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: Is this card supported


> In that case, I believe the NE2000 chipset is well supported in Linux.
> Like I said, give the ISA-PNP module a shot at setting the card up and
> then run netconfig.
>
>
>
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> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Re: Is this card supported

[Adam Myrow]

Pull out the 3com and then re-run netconfig.  Hopefully, that should fix
things and now that you've got the card I've got, it should work.

Re: Is this card supported

[Alex Snow]

That's what I did but it didn't like that.  Aparently netconfig didn't
remove the 3com module and that's screwing things up.
Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm
sick of Winblows!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Myrow" <amyrow@midsouth.rr.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: Is this card supported


> Pull out the 3com and then re-run netconfig.  Hopefully, that should fix
> things and now that you've got the card I've got, it should work.
>
>
>
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>

Re: Is this card supported

[Adam Myrow]

Did you edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules at some point?  If so, you need to find
where you had it load the 3com module and comment it back out with a
number sign.  If that's not the case, remove /etc/rc.d/rc.netdevice which
is the file that netconfig creates.  As a last resort, you could build a
custom kernel with just the module for your new network card, but this
shouldn't be necessary although I generally do so because I like to
customize my system.  Good luck and let us all know how it goes.

Re: Is this card supported

[Alex Snow]

I think a kernel rebuild is going to happen sometime in the near future,
especially since i need to put speakup in.  The reason I hesitate building
the module into the kernel is because like most other techies, my linux box
will not have the same hardware from one day to the next, since I like
playing with different hardware.
Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm
sick of Winblows!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Myrow" <amyrow@midsouth.rr.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: Is this card supported


> Did you edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules at some point?  If so, you need to find
> where you had it load the 3com module and comment it back out with a
> number sign.  If that's not the case, remove /etc/rc.d/rc.netdevice which
> is the file that netconfig creates.  As a last resort, you could build a
> custom kernel with just the module for your new network card, but this
> shouldn't be necessary although I generally do so because I like to
> customize my system.  Good luck and let us all know how it goes.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Re: Is this card supported

[Jude DaShiell]

No, but that doesn't mean you can't run it anyway.  http://www.scyld.com
has a file called netdrivers-x.y.tar.gz you could download and unpack and
make what's inside.  Once you've done that with make then make install,
don't worry about warning messages they're harmless you want to run
modprobe natsemi and see what happens.