I am re-posting this question, since maybe no one really saw the last one using the title that I gave it.

My question is in regard to the Mandrake Install script, and a specific prompt that it presents, asking for "options" to send to the kernal when selecting a network card. I need to tell the Mandrake script the io and irq of my network card, after selecting from a list of cards.

Here are the details:

I've created a CD-ROM boot image for installing Mandrake 10.0. I have an NE2000 compatible card that works fine in Win98, at io=0x300 and IRQ=10.

When Mandrake's install program tries to detect network, it says it needs the network_driver image, so, I put that in. I select one of two modules (the ne.ko or the pci version). I thought that I then should enter the following on the "Options: ______" line:

io=0x300 irq=10

However, that does not work on either module. I think that I am not typing in the "option" correctly. Do I need to type the following on that line?

options ne io=0x300 irq=10

or...

ne io=0x300 irq=10

or, what? I cannot find documentation that tells me exactly what to put on the options input line in the Installation process in this Mandrake 10.0

Please point me to a reference that spells out what Mandrake's install program wants at that particular prompt (I expect that this is a kernal options prompt, but, does Mandrake's install program add the "options" and other information, or do I need to add all that? If I need to add that, what else needs to be added?). Or, just tell me...

Any help would be apprecatiated. I need to have this network card active so that I can install from FTP.

Thanks in advance,

Tomas

Well, I am surprised that no one has an answer to my simple question. What the heck does a person put on the line in Mandrake 10.0's install script, after choosing the network card module, before it attempts to load that module during a boot-up?

Hmmm.

I came looking for answers for Suse Prof 9.1. Yast gave me no help. I got down to using the CLI. I first had to find the ne module ne.ko. I don't understand the .ko extension, but whatever. I thought it was .o

anyway

insmod /path/ne.ko io=0x240 irq=10

"UNKNOW SYMBOL"

I don't understand the error message, but it looks to me that the code is doesn't work.

Mandrake may have the same problem

But, yeah, just put io=0x300 irq=10 in options. The ne.ko is for ISA cards, there is another for PCI cards, chek that out.

73! Long live amateur radio!!

Interesting - I *did* put that on the line, and that is what I got:

"UNKNOWN SYMBOL"

that is why I thought I did it incorrectly.

I never got this to work. I have ended up taking a week to download all three ISO images and burned three CDs. Then, I installed from that.

From that, the Network card works fine.

Go figure.

73!

Did you switch distros, what did you download?? Most everything seems to work to my satisfaction with Suse, and I got some more things to try with it, not going to swithch yet. What did you change?

I downloaded the Mandrake 10.0 Official ISO images - all three - then burnt them to CD. Then, did the install from CDROM.

The networking issues went away when I went through network configuration manually. I could never get the FTP version of the install to work, since the ne.ko never worked.

I will trying with Suse. Best of Luck & 73!!

i had similar problems with a ne2k - compatible card (compex rl 2000) with suse 9.1 and wanted to use the ne.ko package with same problem. it seems that the name of the package was wrong, it was n2 instead of ne.
so i did

insmod /path/n2.ko

without any options, the right io address was configured right.
perhaps this may help some user

Wrong syntax

it's

modprobe n2

WITHOUT the extension!

To supply module options

edit /etc/modules.conf

Then alias your network card

alias eth0 n2


Then use the

above options

lines to supply any parameters you need.

If everything is specified correctly when you reboot you'll find the module is loaded and memory resident...

lsmod | less

to see... and you'll be able to configure the card in the MCC