Alright... Who's the Slackware expert

[sheriff]

I have Slack 9.0 installed on a spare sys (K7S5A) with 1.3 gig athlon. On the install I could'nt get the probe for the network card to find the onboard network card. I have disabled the on board card, and put a old 8139 card in the box. netconfig doesnt get me anywhere. and neither does ifconfig. Do I have to reinstall slack 9 to get the network card detected????

[Scott Tiger]

No, you shouldn't have to do that. Try " ifconfig eth0 " or " ifconfig eth1" as root to see if either of your NICs are detected.

[jkrohn]

I don't know what an 8139 card is What is the make and model. YOu will need to load the correct network module and then you can use netconfig or ifconfig to set everything up.

Jkrohn

[KraM]

8139 would be the realtek 8139 chip. Usually found in the cheapest of network cards.

Try 'modprobe 8139too'

then run your netconfig tool

[sheriff]

Thanks will go to other machine and give it a try. The reason I chose the Realtek 8139 was that, I cant remember a linux ver that it wouldnt work with, but I have tried only 6 or 7 different ones.

[nukes]

Right, at worst you have to recompile the kernel.
The onboard nic is supported fine under any linux 2.4 system.
It uses the sis900 module.
So do:

modprobe sis900
netconfig

If the module doesn't load at startup, then you will have to add it to /etc/modules.conf so the driver is loaded by the time it trys to set the IP/DNS/Gateway addresses or it will fail.

[sheriff]

Thanks nukes. Seeing your location brought back memory's. I was on one of the first 3 ships that started bringing FBM's to Holy Lock.
Thanks.

[sheriff]

Well I am doing something wrong. modprobe sis900 and then running netconfig does not work. I run ifconfig eth0 afterward to check the setup, none of the data I assigned is there????????????

[krohnjw]

When you modprobe sis900 does it say module not found? or does it load?


if you do an lsmod, does it show the module as used?