Network Driver options for Redhat Linux on Prosignia 300

[John Galt]

I have an old Prosignia 300. I'm trying to install RedHat Linux on it. I can't get the on-board NIC to work. It appears to be defaulting to using the BNC connector instead of the RJ-45 connector. I say "appears to be" because I don't have any Coax handy to verify that it's actually talking on the Coax port.

I know the NIC is good. I can boot DOS with an old NetWare client and the NIC works fine on the 10-Base-T port. I'm guessing I have to tell the pcnet32 kernel module to use the 10-base-T port instead of defaulting to the BNC connector.

Does anyone know the proper incantations to do that.

My neighbor just got some goats, so if a sacrifice is needed, I think I can arrange that.

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[jbjbjb]

To force the media type vi /etc/modules.conf
Add:
alias eth0 pcnet32
options pcnet32 options=x

where x = one of these numbers
0 auto-select
1 bnc
2 aui
4 10baset-fd
9 mii 10baset
10 mii 10baset-fd
11 mii
12 10baset
13 mii 100baset
14 mii 100basetx-fd

then reboot. if you still have a problem reply back with dmesg output and anything related to pcnet32 from /var/adm/messages.

John

[John Galt]

Thank you so much.

That was exactly the information I needed.

I now have Linux up and running on my ProSignia and it seems to be working fine.