cube-au
6th June 2004, 02:32 AM
Hi,
I *was* in the process of upgrading from RH9 to FC2, but didn't get too far.
The machine is a Pentium MMX 200Mhz with 256 Meg (it's only a gateway/firewall box) supporting 3 other PCs with 2 Ethernet cards that are NE2000 compatible. They're based on the RealTek RTL8019(AS) chips and are ISA cards.
When installing FC2 and selecting "FTP install" I get asked to select my Ethernet device driver (which is quite fine as it used to do this with RH9 - the only difference it that I'd have to use a driver disk for RH9).
With FC2 it would seem they have done away with driver disks (Unless I am mistaken), looking at the list of available ethernet cards/drivers offered by FC2 during install, the closest to any NE2000 I can see is NE2000 PCMCIA (ne_pcmcia) and a PCI NE2000 compatible (ne2k-pci) driver, which do not suit ? (I tried both out of curiousity, but it got me nowhere!)
These RTL8019AS chips are definately NE2000 compatible as I checked the realtek website (www.realtek.com.tw).
I have used the rset8019.exe utility to check the EEPROM settings on the ethernet cards, and have made sure they're not on PnP. I removed and swapped these cards around in the ISA slots to be sure.
I even performed a CD-ROM based install and that completed just fine on this box, but after booting it would still not detect the ethernet cards.
As a result I have rolled back to RH9 to prevent a riot by the housemates for the internet blackout I caused :-)
Has anyone heard or seen such evilness ? Any ideas on how sort this out, I am hoping that the drivers for the ISA NE2000 are around somewhere.
Anyone have any suggestions ?
I *was* in the process of upgrading from RH9 to FC2, but didn't get too far.
The machine is a Pentium MMX 200Mhz with 256 Meg (it's only a gateway/firewall box) supporting 3 other PCs with 2 Ethernet cards that are NE2000 compatible. They're based on the RealTek RTL8019(AS) chips and are ISA cards.
When installing FC2 and selecting "FTP install" I get asked to select my Ethernet device driver (which is quite fine as it used to do this with RH9 - the only difference it that I'd have to use a driver disk for RH9).
With FC2 it would seem they have done away with driver disks (Unless I am mistaken), looking at the list of available ethernet cards/drivers offered by FC2 during install, the closest to any NE2000 I can see is NE2000 PCMCIA (ne_pcmcia) and a PCI NE2000 compatible (ne2k-pci) driver, which do not suit ? (I tried both out of curiousity, but it got me nowhere!)
These RTL8019AS chips are definately NE2000 compatible as I checked the realtek website (www.realtek.com.tw).
I have used the rset8019.exe utility to check the EEPROM settings on the ethernet cards, and have made sure they're not on PnP. I removed and swapped these cards around in the ISA slots to be sure.
I even performed a CD-ROM based install and that completed just fine on this box, but after booting it would still not detect the ethernet cards.
As a result I have rolled back to RH9 to prevent a riot by the housemates for the internet blackout I caused :-)
Has anyone heard or seen such evilness ? Any ideas on how sort this out, I am hoping that the drivers for the ISA NE2000 are around somewhere.
Anyone have any suggestions ?
