[NCLUG] device configuration in linux (RH62)

[Jim Ankrum]

"S. Luke Jones" wrote:

> I've got a PC here that I'm trying to run Linux on and
> for some reason the RH installer is skipping the setup
> network section. When I run the RH X-based netconfig
> or the curse-base netcfg I don't do much better. When
> I run LinuxConf things are, frankly, worse. Finally,
> when I go mucking around in /etc/conf.modules and
> /etc/sysconfig/network and .../network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> I am equally unsuccessful.
>
> Ultimately I always get a [FAILED] message from the
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/network script when I try to start things.
> This happens with a two different PCI cards: the 3COM 10/100
> that uses 3c59x and a LinkSys card that, if I read the
> Ethernet HOWTO correctly, should be a tulip card.
>
> I never had any trouble with this box when it ran windows,
> except Windows, of course, so I'm wondering if there is
> some kind of device conflict and how to detect it.
>
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Don't know if you got it going yet or not, but another thing I've found
is a few expansion cards won't work in Linux if Plug n Play OS is
selected in the BIOS when they work fine in windows.
    Jim