Why would a NIC card NOT be recognized?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Also, you can specify the IRQ and port using LILO. 
I don't remember the exact format. Also sometimes the 3com ISA boards 
need to be setup via a DOS setup program supplied on the 3com driver 
diskette, but that would not explain why the same boards come up on 
another identical system.  

 Peter Grace <pgrace at world.std.com> wrote:

Try the following as root or using sudo

insmod eepro
then see if the card shows in ifconfig

Peter Grace    __________<_+_>________

eepro is the module for this. It should be in /lib/modules/(kernel
specific)/net/


On 20 Mar 2001, at 10:05, Kevin M. Gleason wrote:

> Hi Jerry,
> 
> They are 3Com Etherlink III ISA 10BaseT cards that are not recognized when
> eth0 is loaded. All machines are identically configured with the exact same
> kernels and modules. They were previously configured with Windows 95 and all
> could ping and be pinged, but when I converted them to Linux...they appear
> dead. When I run ifconfig, I only see the loopback 127.0.0.1 and not the
> eth0 address.
> 
> 
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 
> > First, what are the NICs?
> > Second, are all these systems similarly hardware configured?
> > Could very well be that you have an IRQ conflict.
> > Third, are all these systems running the same kernel and modules.
> >
> > When they boot up, do they not recognize the NIC?
> > On 20 Mar 2001, at 8:26, Kevin M. Gleason wrote:
> >
> > > I'm currently running a linux network at school on 15 Compaq 100 mhz
> > > machines and about 5 won't recognize the NIC card (and therefore won't
> > > recognize the network). I've tried swapping the NICs with other peer
> > > machines and they work flawlesslessly, I've tried swapping cables and
> > > again, no problem. I've run out of possible problems....
> > >
> > >
> > >           anyone have a thought I can research?
> > >
> > > Kevin
> > >
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