followup from nite with SAMBA

[Mike Bilow]

Jason Nelson wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

>Nite was fun, I will be back....but (yes I am new...and 
>struggling) Have ASUS SP98-N board with Intel 82558 LAN Chipset

 JN> found it was a faulty nic card.  Then I got another card
 JN> (Lyncsys LNE2000T NE2000 compatible) and ran linuxconf and
 JN> the  network configuration part to set up nic card and it
 JN> still didn't work.  Then I discovered that you have to
 JN> disable plug and play, which I did by running the setup
 JN> program for the card in DOS.  Then I booted back to Linux
 JN> and the card was detected.

The Intel 8255x chipset is PCI; automatic configuration is supported by Linux.

Also, for ISA network cards, you can either disable PnP support as you did, or
you can use "isapnptools" to configure your PnP device in software.  Since many
NE2000-compatible cards do not support disabling PnP, it is important to know
how to cope with this.
 
-- Mike


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