[Techtalk] Install not picking up NIC

[BUNTER MATTHEW]

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Hamster,

Yeah I've booted the box with 6.2 and followed their instructions to the letter. The reason for using 6.2 is I wanted to
start with IPCHAINS and a really good walkthrough on how to secure the box tightly. Its not just a firewall
instruction but what to do to the kernel, what to lock down and how.

Previous installs of 6.2 have given me the chance to configure the hostname, NIC details and other stuff - no NIC problems
before with any version of RH - EVER. The reason I thought that this was a package issue was due to the limited packages they
said to install to setup the box. Then after the install they actually tell you to remove alot of them!

The NIC is a Kingston KNE20 EtheRx ISA P-n-P. I found that the module needed was ne. The only other time I had problems was
trying to install Smoothwall when I tried ne io=0x300 irq=5 and the install program couldn't load the module.(I've given up
on this because of the treatment Richard Morrell hands out to users on the Smoothwall list).

When do you actually use the modprobe command? (after install I presume)

Yeah NIC will be loaded at bootup - I don't have a problem with this at the moment so no worries there, it's just getting the
NIC recognised after installing a minimal config that I'm stuck on.

All I want to do is have a firewall/masquerading/gateway for my little old home network - I couldn't find anything easily
understood for using IPTABLES - the Linuxguruz site simply overwhelmed me. I still don't know which HOWTO to read : iptables,
masquerading, netfilter, etc!!!

Apologies for the length of the mail, hope what is happening is a bit clearer.

Rgs,

Matt

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Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 13:51:32 +0200
Subject: Re: [Techtalk] Install not picking up NIC

Matt,

Two things I'd like to say here.

First, you say the doc is based on RH6.2. Is this the actual version you are using?
If you are, can I suggest you use a more recent version. While a look on the RH website shows that they are still producing errata for version 6.2, using a version with a 2.4 kernel gives you access to niftier firewalling rules.

But thats not too important really.

As to getting your nic working, its not a matter of packages, but a matter of modules.
You need to load the driver for your nic.

The first thing you need to do is find out what nic you have in the machine, and then find the corresponding module that it needs.
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/network/nicmodules.html
That page should help you find the module you need for your nic.
Alternatively, you could always throw on a newer distro and get it to autodetect your nic, and then see what module it chooses by looking in /etc/modules.conf

To load the module and get your nic working you need to do:
modprobe name_of_module
If it returns some error, then check the module is actually on your machine.
You can use the command lsmod (list modules) to see whats loaded and rmmod will remove any modules. insmod is another way of installing modules, but modprobe is a better method cause it checks for dependencies.


Now my question is, do you want your nic automatically loaded at bootup? If so there are a few extra steps you need to do. I dont know if I can talk you through them though, cause I only know how to do it for RH 7 and above, 6 might be different. But I am
 more than happy to have a go if you want. Let me know.

Hope this has been some help.

Hamster

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