Re: Networking

I used several D-Link ethernet cards over the years and I've only had
trouble with one in Win98. Win95 has always auto detected. I used
DE-220 T and DFE 530 TX. the 220 should onnly cost about $2 ow because
it's ISA and about 3 years old, and the 530, which I have a few extras of,
should be cheap too. If you would like oe of my extras I would be willing
to part with it for very little money.

Karl

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Ian Wright wrote:

> From: "Ian Wright" <Ian@...>
>
> Hi group,
>
> I'm still struggling to get some networking going - or, more particularly,
> to get a network card detected.
> I semi- gave up with the Ether Express cards as I couldn't get either linux
> or windows 95 to see them and I have now acquired some other cards which
> ought to work but things seem to be going from bad to worse!
> The 'new cards' I have (donated to me second-hand, can't you tell funds are
> very short at the moment!) are a PCI D-Link DE-530 CT, an IBM EtherJet ISA
> and an IBM EtherStreamer ISA. As far as I can tell from the HOWTOs all
> should be supported but the computer will not detect any under linux. On the
> same machine, all are detected by Windows 95 and I currently have the D-Link
> card set up on IRQ11 under windows.
> Now it gets more problematic. Since linux would not detect any of the cards
> I wondered if I maybe hadn't compiled support into the kernel properly and
> so I did an 'xconfig' etc. This showed that I had support for PCI network
> cards compiled in and support for Ether Express and several other network
> cards as modules. I changed the status of the Ether Express and the other
> parts that seemed appropriate to be compiled into a new kernel and carried
> on with the 'make dep, make clean etc.' However, when I got to the 'make
> zImage' I ran into trouble as, when it finished rattling the disk drive, it
> gave me the following error messages:
> Root device is (3, 70)
> Boot Sector 512 bytes
> Setup is 4396 bytes
> System is 535Kb
> System is too big
> make[1]: *** [zImage] ERROR 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory 'usr/src/linux-2.0.36/arch/i386/boot'
> make: *** [zImage] ERROR 2
>
> I don't understand the 'System is too big' message - too big for what? The
> hard drive I am using certainly has enough room on it and KDiskFree reports
> /dev/hdb1 size 22.8MB /boot 20.5MB free
> /dev/hdb6 size 3.75GB / 2.29GB free
>
> Can anyone tell me what's going wrong and explain in simple 'Janet and John'
> language what I need to do please? I assume that the first step is to get
> the system to detect the card at boot up and then set up the network - is
> this correct? Please don't presume I know anything though, I am still very
> much a beginner with linux and statements like 'give the config program this
> info' as in Jon's earlier reply below or 'include........in the script' mean
> very little to me - as far as I can see, there are only so many choices in
> the config program and the ones I can see probably seem inappropriate and as
> for 'startup scripts', what are they?
>
> Sorry to be a nuisance but any help will be very gratefully received as,
> since my daughter got her own house and made off with her comuter equipment,
> I am getting a bit fed up having to carry my laser printer up two floors to
> use it on the linux box when I need to!!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ian
>
> > This is the one bit of info you need. This seems to be the original, old
> Ether
> > Express, and those 1994 date codes (9438, 9432) support that. The HowTo
> > says Status - Supported. So, if you give the config program this info, it
> should
> > find it. I'm not sure how you set the I/O, int vector, etc. I seem to
> remember that
> > the early ones had a configuration program that ran under DOS, and you
> supplied
> > the address parameters, etc. and it programmed a non-volatile memory on
> the
> > card. You might look around on Intel's web site for this program.
> >
> > Jon
>
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