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[bromide]

i have two 3com isa ethernet cards in it.

[Nick_B]

Do you have the model numbers? That's the best way to look them up.

[bromide]

i believe it is the ELII/16TP

[serotone9]

run "lsmod" to see if the modules are loaded. also, post what you get when you run "ifconfig" (run as root).

[bromide]

when i run ifconfig i get this:

Link encap: local loopback
inet addr: 127.0.0.1 mask: 255.0.0.0
up loopback running mtu: 16436 metric: 1
RX packets: 52 errors: 0 dropped: 0 over(something): 0 frames: 0
TX packets: 52 errors: 0 dropped: 0 over(something): 0 carrier: 0
collisions: 0 txqueuelen: 0
RX bytes: 4136 (4.0Kb) TX bytes: 4136 (4.0Kb)

the drive is in my main system right now and not in the system i had planned for it. so the ethernet card(slot) i am using is built into my mobo (ecs k7s5a)

[bromide]

help?

[serotone9]

that is your loopback interface, but there is no eth0 listed, so i think that means your network drivers aren't loaded. you will have to know or find out which driver you need, then load it with /sbin/modprobe <drivername>. you'll also need to add that command to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules so it gets loaded each time you boot up (it might even be in there commented out, in which case just remove the # in front of it).

after your driver issue is sorted out, run netconfig to configure your network settings, IP, etc. you may or may not have to put some aliases in your /etc/modules.conf, but i've never had to do that so i can't help you there. hopefully you won't have to. sounds like a lot, but it's not that bad really, once you get your ethernet card recognized, driver loaded, etc.

>edit: from google, i think the driver you want is the SiS900. you could try modprobing that in case it's on your system. ("modprobe -l |more" will list what drivers are available, look for the ones that say "net" in the path, obviously. )

[bromide]

wow....well, thanks for the response. i will hop to it as soon as i can. thanks a lot for helping me on this!!

[serotone9]

no prob - i hope it is a help. i don't know much about doing this, so hopefully someone who knows more will fill in any blanks i might have left. google searching usually helps too, so also check there, especially google.com/linux.