isa nic on red hat 7.3

[George Toft]

Dan wrote:
> 
> New topic from newbie:
> 
> I am unable to force red hat 7.3 to recognize my ISA NIC.
> 
> The process went like this:
> 
> 1  I logged in as root
> 2  I ran ifconfig which showed my loopback address of 127.0.0.1, but no
> mention of eth0
> 3  I ran netconfig to set the proper static IP address, mask, default
> gateway, and name server
> 4  I ran ifconfig which still only showed my loopback address
> 5  I ran ifconfig eht0 irq 10 io_address 0x100 10.0.0.5 netmask 255.0.0.0
> broadcast 10.255.255.255
> The error message read:
> irq: SIOCGIFMAP: No such device
> io_address: Host name lookup failure
> ipconfig: '--help' gives usage information
> 
> The NIC is old (supporting only 10Mbps) and is an ISA slot.
> 
> Do I have any hope?
> What are my options?
> 
> Due to recient threads, I must state that I believe this message is sent in
> plain text.  I do not wish to enter into that thread, but I support the
> notion of plain text email.
> 
> unable to connect to home network,
> 
> dan
> 
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You need to load the drivers before you can assign an IP.  Who made the
NIC?

George
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