In desperate need of inexpensive working Network card!

[James Carter]

Great! Thank you for the great response I appreciate it. I only have one PCI
slot, which is why I have to use the ISA card in the first place. What I am
attempting to do is build a router with an old Packard Bell 486DX machine. I
chose this machine as it holds a small footprint in a shelf on my desk. It
is working great, aside from the PCI NIC not working nicely with the ISA
NIC.

I would like to use the ISA NIC to serve as my WAN link, and the PCI NIC to
serve as my internal private LAN gateway......thus doing simple NAT. With
that said and done, I could then focus on the more advanced routing,
firewalling and IDS. I think with what you have said thus far has given me
enough to work with. I appreciate your help, and the help that I have
received from the rest of the group here.

I currently do have an ISA card in the box but need to give it back as it
was borrowed from a friend that has need of it. So I would need to purchase
an ISA card.....and would like to stick with the 3com cards.

In anyones opinion, would it be better if I went with 2 ISA cards instead of
1 PCI and 1 ISA? I am also planning on incorporating a modem into the
mix......so if 2 ISA cards would work that may be all the better.

Thanks again for all your help I do appreciate it.



-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Craig
White
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 7:36 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: RE: In desperate need of inexpensive working Network card!




> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of James
> Carter
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 2:09 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: In desperate need of inexpensive working Network card!
>
>
> I need an Etherlink III ISA 509B 10BaseT NIC. Can someone part
> with one, or
> know where to pick one up for fairly cheap in the Southeast valley????
>
>
> Also, why would Redhat 7.1 have a problem with an ISA 509b NIC and a PCI
> 905b NIC operating in the same machine? I only ask because I can't seem to
> get the OS to recognize the 905b.
>
----
Given that RH 7.1 will detect and install proper drivers for almost all PCI
NIC cards and that you can pick up Linksys cards at Fry's for about $10 and
$17 for SMC EZ, I think that fooling around with anything else is probably
foolish.

But - if you are determined to make the 509B work - you will have to make
certain that it is set to an IRQ that isn't already in use, that it is IRQ
10 or less (leaving only 3,4,5,7,9,10) and subtract 3 &/or 4 if you have
modem(s), another serial device, 7 if you have a parellel printer or other
device, 5, 9 & 10 if you use a sound card - THEN ...

it should detect the card - if you have more than one in your machine - you
need to configure them all on on the first card... i.e you have 2 of the
same cards eth0 & eth1. You have to configure eth0 with the specific IRQ,
BaseAddr, deviceDriver...values for both NIC's on the same line.

eth0
3COM509XXX
ip=192.168.1.1,192.168.2.1
sm=255.255.255.0,255.255.255.0
IRQ=10,5
BASE=0x300,0x260

and leave eth1 blank - except for active - that must be checked.

Craig

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