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AwPhuch

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Posted: Nov. 01 2004,06:02

Thats fine..just find old sytle pcmica cards..not cardbus
Gray metal all the way to the pins not the ones with the gold strip

Brian
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NewDude

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Posted: Mar. 28 2006,20:59

Awphuch,

I have a LTE 5380 and a docking station.... DSL didn't detect the NE2000 compatable NIC built into the docking station...

Can you post real quick what I need to do...

DSL so far is running great on the system, but I haven't installed the network driver... how do I turn on the NE2000 support?

Would that be modprode NE? Or something at the commandline???

Thanks...

AwPhuch

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Posted: Mar. 29 2006,00:19

Quote (NewDude @ Mar. 28 2006,15:59)

As soon as I get home and get a power hookup to it, its a rather simple command line that I added to the /opt/bootlocal.sh file and bam..at boottime it loads the ne2000 drivers...pump's the DHCP and bamo..instant internet!

Brian
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NewDude

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Posted: Mar. 29 2006,03:24

I got it to work...

ifdown -a

modprobe ne irq=10 io=0x340

ifup -a

then ran netcardconfig... it is up and going...

AwPhuch

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Posted: Mar. 29 2006,03:42

Yup...exactly that...I had to set mine to irq=11 io=330 due to the bios (you can change it if you want in the bios)

Pretty sweet huh..sucker works pretty nice for such a hunka junker...just beware...if you open firefox...get ready for a 45-60 second delay!

Oh and you dont have to do netcardconfig...if you want to capture a DHCP address just add "pump -i eth0" right below that line to activate it..and bam

Just be warned if its not connected to a lan when you boot it will hang for about 30 sec until the DHCP request times out

now add those commands to your /etc/bootlocal.sh to activate it every time at boot time

Brian
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http://www.smoothwall.org <-- Ultimate firewall for the world!
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