Linux Help!

[Alex Dussault]

I've been working at this for a while so any help at this point would be
great.

My system has two Ethernet cards, one cheap one, and one d-link de220P ( I
believe that this is the kind that cogeco provides with @home
installation). On boot up, the cheap card loads no problem, but the d-link
does not, and I need the d-link for the cable internet. Can someone give me
some help on how to get this card up and running so that I can get the
internet to work on Linux?

Thanks very much,

Alex

[you know that guy.... ummm.... andre]

sounds like a conflict - linux probably doesnt know you have two cards -
give each of them their own address...

just a thought and no idea where to check - since i aint a linux monkey
yet

andre

> Alex

[Willy Saul Zamler]

"you know that guy.... ummm.... andre" <amol...@home.com> wrote in message
news:389DD890...@home.com...

>
> My system has two Ethernet cards, one cheap one, and one d-link de220P

I
> > believe that this is the kind that cogeco provides with @home
> > installation). On boot up, the cheap card loads no problem, but the
d-link
> > does not, and I need the d-link for the cable internet. Can someone
give me
> > some help on how to get this card up and running so that I can get the
> > internet to work on Linux?
>
> sounds like a conflict - linux probably doesnt know you have two cards -
> give each of them their own address...

i'm not a big linux geek (yet) but make sure the d-link is not pnp, that
causes a lot of problems.
I had tried to install d-link on a win98 machine, and that was a tough job.
so make sur.
also, i really hate d-link cards now, i have a couple sititng in my room
that don't work. i though they were good, nope, i was wrong, none of the
them is working properly
I have 2 de-220, and one 530 TX, they're really nice pieces of shitty
engineering.

anyways, make sure for the pnp function, since i don't know if it has to be
on, or off.

--
Willy Saul Zamler
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[Jeff A. Kolesnikowicz]

> I
> > > believe that this is the kind that cogeco provides with @home
> > > installation). On boot up, the cheap card loads no problem, but the
> d-link
> > > does not, and I need the d-link for the cable internet. Can someone
> give me
> > > some help on how to get this card up and running so that I can get the
> > > internet to work on Linux?
> >
> > sounds like a conflict - linux probably doesnt know you have two cards -
> > give each of them their own address...

Make sure your cards aren't on the same IRQ - that's the only real
conflict I've ever had.

>
> i'm not a big linux geek (yet) but make sure the d-link is not pnp, that
> causes a lot of problems.
> I had tried to install d-link on a win98 machine, and that was a tough job.
> so make sur.
> also, i really hate d-link cards now, i have a couple sititng in my room
> that don't work. i though they were good, nope, i was wrong, none of the
> them is working properly
> I have 2 de-220, and one 530 TX, they're really nice pieces of shitty
> engineering.

Really? I've never had a problem with them...
I like to support D-Link and RealTek because they are one of the few
companies that make cards with Linux drivers.

Now - what kind of errors are you having? Are the network cards coming up
when you reboot?

what happens when you restart your network?

go to /etc/rc.d/init.d/ and type ./network restart... what happens?

have you confused which card you have plugged into the cable modem?

>
> anyways, make sure for the pnp function, since i don't know if it has to be
> on, or off.

PNP is supported in newer version of Redhat...and so is USB for that
matter...

--jeff

[Alex Dussault]

"Jeff A. Kolesnikowicz" <cs...@trentu.ca> wrote in message
news:Pine.ULT.3.96.100020...@blaze.trentu.ca...

When i reboot, the d-link in this case eth1 is coming up as failed and the
message is that is being delayed.

> what happens when you restart your network?
>
> go to /etc/rc.d/init.d/ and type ./network restart... what happens?
>
> have you confused which card you have plugged into the cable modem?
>
>

all the cards are in the right spot, and i have redhat 6.1

Alex

[Jeff A. Kolesnikowicz]

>
> When i reboot, the d-link in this case eth1 is coming up as failed and the
> message is that is being delayed.

I had this ame problem over X-Mas...and it can be one of two things...

1) sometimes the cards conflict with each other...try moving the card
that's not working...

2) have you installed the right driver for the card? For my d-link I'm
using the ne-2k pci driver...try changing this (to do thing...in X windows
at the prompt type netconf...(as su of course...) go to Basic Host
Configuration and click on the card that's giving you trouble (probably
the second one...) near the bottom of the form there's a drop down box
that says "Kernel Module" try changing that to ne2k-pci (if you have a pci
card...) and restart your network... /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart

if that doesn't work you're going to have to recompile your
kernel(adding new drivers...)...and
for that I say RTFM cuz I sure don't wanna explain it here! :)

--jeff