high school student needs help - Netgear FA310tx and RedHat5.2

[mike h]

I hate to ruin your fun, but my old high school already has a web page via
Linux (the computer club or something) through wednet.

You should watch during the boot process and see what happens when
networking is initialized (maybe you get an error about not finding the
card at a given address or something).

If the card is detected and configured at boot, you should be able to do
'ifconfig eth0' and see the current setup for your Ethernet adapter.

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Michael Hornung		foobar at u.washington.edu

On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Benjamin Honsinger wrote:

|Hi, I am a student at Wenatchee High School. I have been trying to solve
|this problem for about a week, and I still haven't figured out a solution
|yet.
|My Netgear FA310TX card doesn't seem to work with Redhat 5.2. My computer
|has:
|amd k-6 350
|128MB Ram
|matrox millenium g200 (vid card)
|Netgear FA310tx (connected to a 10 base-t ethernet)
|a clean install with nothing installed except redhat 5.2
|
|I have tried installing the driver in the kernel and as a module. I think
|that for some reason the card isn't recognized by the computer.
|Currently I have the netcard installed into the kernel, and when I try and
|ping someone, it returns the error 'Network is unreachable' and 'ret=-1'.
|When shutting down the computer, I noticed a line saying 'eth0: unrecognized
|device'. That's why I think the computer isn't recognizing the card.
|Any help anyone can give me would be great, because I am stumped.
|
|Benjamin Honsinger
|
|Once I get my network connection working, I am going to use the computer as
|a linux web server - probably the first high school linux webserver in the
|country! =)
|
|