Re: [Trinux-talk] Network

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

> 1: My eternet card is a D-Link (Novell 2000)  (ISA) and i dont know if it can work or if there is anyway to use it... when i boot form the flopy there is an error message: 
> ====================================
> Looking for eth0
> Unable to find eth0. Did the Kernel recognize it?
> eth0: error fetching interface information: device not found
> ====================================
> 
> So.. what is the problem?? anybody can help me?

You will need to specify the io and irq that are passed to the kernel in
the syslinux.cfg file on the boot floppy. There are some sample cfgs
there, such as:

display license
prompt 1
default network
timeout 30
label floppy
  kernel bzimage
  append initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 pkg=floppy
label 486
  kernel bzimage
  append ether=3,0x220,eth1 ether=11,0x1000,eth0 initrd=initrd.gz
root=/dev/ram0 pkg=network
label gxa
  kernel bzimage
  append ether=10,0,eth0 ether=5,0x300,eth1 initrd=initrd.gz
root=/dev/ram0 pkg=network
label cdrom
  kernel bzimage
  append initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 pkg=cdrom
label network
  kernel bzimage
  append vga=4 initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 pkg=network

The "network" label boots by default so add ethere=irq,io,eth0 with
whatever parameters are set on the jumper or NIC BIOS. The Linux Ethernet
HOWTO has sspecific instructions for NE2000 if you run into trouble



> 
> 2: I have only 16 meg of ram memory... so i cant put every package.... i had try to put trinux on the HD 
> but it dont work..!! can anybody help me for that too?
> 

Pick only the tools for the job

see http://trinux.sourceforge.net/tools.html



-mdf