followup from nite with SAMBA

[jtnelson at bbnplanet.com (Jason Nelson)]

I struggled with getting my eth0 configured in Red Hat Linux 5.1 for about
2 weeks.  After trying the NIC card in my PC I found it was a faulty nic
card.  Then I got another card (Lyncsys LNE2000T NE2000 compatible) and ran
linuxconf and the  network configuration part to set up nic card and it
still didn't work.  Then I discovered that you have to disable plug and
play, which I did by running the setup program for the card in DOS.  Then I
booted back to Linux and the card was detected.  After that I ran ifconfig
eth0 [hostname or ip] to assign the nic card an IP (if you use a hosts name
make sure you have that hosts associated to an IP in /etc/hosts (you
probably knew that :)).    A bit of a hack from a newbie but it worked for
me.  Now it works like a charm.    Read the ethernetHOWTO to see if your
nic card is compatible with Linux.  Good luck.  

Samba is my next project to set up - anything I should know before I start.  

Jason 

At 06:29 PM 4/13/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Nite was fun, I will be back....but (yes I am new...and struggling)
>Have ASUS SP98-N board with Intel 82558 LAN Chipset
>Running Redhat 5.2 updated to Mandrake 5.3(cheapbytes)
>Can not configure the net work connection, listed in bios start-up IRQ 10 I/O
>0xb800
>Cann't figure up how to set up eth0 in Redhat...always get error message
during
>start up
>Any help would be welcome...including pointing me else where
>Trying to net work two computer either linux to linux or linux to windoze
>Thanks to any and all
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