[ILUG] BBC networking with ISA network card

[Gavin McCullagh]

Okay forget I said anything (at leats on point 2).  Yeah the driver does create the devices (Gavin reading net-howto again).

I stuck in a newer PCI card and we're up and running.  This BBC is very cool.

Thanks

Gavin


On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Gavin McCullagh wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 	I've successfully downloaed, burnt and booted onto the ilug BBC (much thanks to all concerned).
> 
> 	The PC I'm using it on is a windows PC which needs reinstalling.  First I need to get onto it and copy some stuff off across the network.  
> 
> 	The network card is the following:
> 
> 		RPTe203 ISA.
> 
> 	Ran pnpdump >somefile and isapnp somefile.  Gives above name and hardware address I believe.
> 
> 	Two things.
> 	
> * Has anyone any idea of this network card cos I can find nothing about it.  Is it supported?  If not I'll have to stick in a pci card.
> 
> * What must I do to get the network interface up.  eth0 doesn't exist seemingly. Perhaps it wil be created on insmod of correct modules?
> 
> 	I've never done any setups from quite this low a level.  I'm used to configuring ifup-eth0 and resolv.conf but I've never had to create devices before.  Perhaps this appears very stupid, but I guess these lovely user-friendly installers and netcfg etc leave one missing some info.
> 
> Gavin
> 
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