Network Card Detection

Forum: Networking
Topic: Network Card Detection
started by: nicom

Posted by nicom on Nov. 22 2004,09:47

I have recently loaded DSL onto an old machine (Pentium 133) with a SMC ultra network card. Loading was fine and the system works well, but when I run netcardconfig I get the error "No supported network card found".

Do I need to install a driver? If so how?

I am only beginning on Linux so I will need some simple instructions.

Posted by skaos on Nov. 22 2004,12:21

Take a look at < http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Module-HOWTO/. > You probably have to run these two commands:

modprobe 8390
modprobe smc-ultra

If you are connected to a network with a dhcp server, you have to run "pump" (without quotes).

Posted by nicom on Nov. 28 2004,11:01

Many thanks skaos.
Your advise was spo on. I now understand a little bit more about LKMs. I also worked out that by putting the commands in the bootlocal.sh file, the network card will be detected on boot.

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Nov. 28 2004,21:28

Welcome to the Revolution!!!

Posted by kovi on Nov. 30 2004,11:38

Hi,

I have got similar problem.
I installed simple NE2000 network card with modprobe, it was fine, netcardconfig found the card, and I get an IP address from DHCP.
But when I reboot, it forget everything, I have to install the network card manually again.

I am very new in linux, please help..

Posted by skaos on Nov. 30 2004,13:03

If you run from the live CD, I think you have to do it every time - the only simplification is that (I think) you can run pump instead of netcardconfig.

If you have a HD install, put modprobe and pump in /opt/bootlocal.sh (I think this will work, but I'm not 100% sure).

Posted by kovi on Nov. 30 2004,13:30

I run from HD, modprobe and pump works fine

Thanks!