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Re: [TCLUG:1216] eth0 problems (cont.)



On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Tim Wilson wrote:

Sounds like you'll have to pull the card and drop it into a DOS machine
just to configure it, then put it back into the Linux box.

> For whatever reason, my NIC (a Kingston KNE100TX, a "tulip" card) is not
> being initialized (if that's the right word) when the computer starts up.
> I powered down completely and rebooted, but it didn't help. Someone
> suggested that it may have lost its IRQ and memory settings when the power
> went out, and I think that's probably what happened.
> 
> Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it), I can't
> boot into DOS and fix the problem because I don't have DOS loaded on this
> computer. It's a Linux only machine. Kingston's website has some what
> appears to be utility software to download, but it's Win95/8/NT only. It
> won't run from a floppy either. It's a program that needs to be
> installed on the hard disk.

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