From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: I was installing a DE220 network card in a friends firewall. This card uses the legacy ne driver, which needs the io address and irq supplied in an 'options' line in modules.conf. I tried the network tool in gui mode, but it refused to load when I set the irq to 10 and the io address to 0x300. Doing "modprobe ne io=0x300 irq=10" from the command line worked, however. I opened modules.conf in vi, and found the following: alias eth1 ne options ne irq=10 io=12c 12c is 300 in hex. Manually changing it to alias eth1 ne options ne irq=10 io=0x300 fixed the problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-network-1.3.10-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install NE1000/2000 hardware 2.use the graphical redhat-config-network tool to try and set the IO address of the card to a hex number, like 0x300 3.Save the config. The driver fails to load Actual Results: Driver refused to load, since the io was set to 0x12c not 0x300 Expected Results: NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 80 c8 2c f1 a5 eth1: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 10. Additional info:
did you enter "0x300" or "300" in the io entry? if you mean hex, you should prefix with "0x",
Hi, Harold. I did prefix it - I entered 0x300 (without quotes of course)in the I/O entry. I tried that 3 times just to make sure before I knew it was a bug and not user error. Ron