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NE2000 "clones" --- not "cloney" enough!
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<H4 align="center">By James T. Dennis,
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<BR>Starshine Technical Services, <A HREF="http://www.starshine.org/">http://www.starshine.org/</A>
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>NE2000 "clones" --- not "cloney" enough!</H3>
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<p><strong>From Jack on 08 Oct 1998 </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Hi, I am a huge fan of Linux and all that GNU stands for. I got my first
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taste of Linux back in the 0.99 days. Since that time I have poked and
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prodded along with different flavors of installation, but due to my work
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environment I have never been able to jump in with both feet. I have
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finally scraped together a modest system for my home use that I can
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dedicate to Linux, and wanted to get it set up as a network server. I have
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been reading articles, <a href="http://www.linuxresources.com/LDP/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX-3.html#ss3.1">HOWTOs</a>, and the like about setting up network
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access. Each of the refrences have always begun past the step where I am
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getting hung up. I cannot get the system to recognize my eithernet card.
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<p><strong>True it is an NE2000 clone (cheap), but Win95 recognizes it just fine and
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the software packaged with it has no trouble locating the card, nor does
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the plug-n-pray BIOS. I read the <a href="http://www.linuxresources.com/LDP/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html">Eithernet-HOWTO</a> which tells about issuing
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commands during the lilo startup and tried that with the values returned
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from the packaged diagnostic software. I'm hoping this is just something
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I'm overlooking or mis-read or didn't read(yet), and not a situation where
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I need to upgrade the ethernet card (my last option). I came to you as my
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next to last option since you have given so many people good advice in the
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past. I hope you can help and look forward to hearing from you soon.
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<p><strong>Jack.
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<blockquote><IMG SRC="../../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" ALT="(!)" height="28" width="50" align="bottom">Replace the ethernet card. Go get a Netgear (Tulip based)
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or a 3Com (3c509).
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<blockquote>I had <EM>exactly</EM> the same problem when I first tried to
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configure a Linux system to use some NE2000 clone.
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<blockquote>It probably has nothing to do with Plug-n-pray or IRQ's
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or I/O ports, or kernel drivers, or options, or your
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ifconfig command. I tried everything with that card
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--- and it just plain wasn't recognized!
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<blockquote>Trust me. You can spend $30 (US) or less on a supported
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ethernet card and it will almost certainly just <em>work</em>.
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Or you can spend the same hours I did thinking "I must be
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stupid" <em>and then go buy the card</em>.
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<blockquote>The term NE2000 should be taken with a large block of
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salt (the kind we use to haul out to the horse pastures
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when I was a kid). They are "NE2000 compatible" in about
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the same way as a "winmodem" is "Hayes compatible" ---
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only when you use them through the "supported" software.
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<blockquote>True hardware level compatability involves using the
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exact same sets of I/O ports and other adnctions
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as the original. Most of the cheap NE2000 just aren't
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compatible, they have to supply their versions of the
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drivers --- and they only achieve "compatibility" through
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the software interfaces.
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<H5 align="center"><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
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>Copyright ©</a> 1998, James T. Dennis <BR>
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Published in <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 34 November 1998</H5>
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