Linux (RedHat) network card, sound card configuration and installation entry

Configuring a NIC under Linux may be the most common problem encountered when installing Linux.

According to my experience in configuring my 3C509TP0 NIC, I thought that the following steps can usually solve the problem.

(1) See if the network card can be detected when Linux starts. If you can't: see if your Kernel's settings don't support it. If not, plus, from the new Kernel, use the new kernel to see if you can detect the network card. (See Kernel-HowTo for core configuration issues.)

2: If the kernel is already supported, but it is not found, you may want to choose a NIC model that is compatible with your network card. This step, my experience is not much, if anyone has experience, but also hope to contribute. Here is recommended to buy a Linux-supported network card (usually of good quality)

3: If you are a multi-NIC, you can't detect the second or later network card, please see Enthernet, Bridge, Firewall, etc. and dual network card HowTO.

(b) If the core detects the network card, but can not ping other machines in the subnet 1: See if you can ping yourself, if you can, usually the parameters of the network card are not set. If not, it may be that you have not defined lo (this situation is relatively rare, or I am ignorant)

2: Because Linux support for PCI/PNP is not perfect, it is recommended that you disable the PNP function of the network card. Drop it. How to disable, you need the driver disk of the network card, and different network cards have different methods. The 3C509 model can be used with its 3c5x9cfg.exe to put PNPdisable under DOS. If you are a 3C5x9 model and need a drive disk, Linux has a default Irq and io_addr for each model NIC. For details, see EthernetHOWTO. You sometimes need to set the corresponding IRQ to ISA in the BIOS instead of PNP.

3: Other models, I have no experiment, if anyone has experience, I hope to contribute to everyone.

(3) Linux's HOWTO on the Internet is very useful. You should first check out the HOWTO. If not, please ask everyone.

Relatively speaking, the installation of the sound card is much easier.

DL is the same OSS (OpenSoundSystem) as your core version.

Is it much easier than a network card? Ha ha.