Thank you for the prompt reply. The network cards (i.e. Dec tulip PCI) are actually being recognized at boot time. I posted my dmesg output on: <A HREF="http://www.techlinks.com/helpme.txt"><A HREF="http://www.techlinks.com/helpme.txt</A">http://www.techlinks.com/helpme.txt</A</A>> The problem is even though they are recognized AND I can manually + successfully configure them with IFCONFIG, I simply wanted to use the YAST utility. I even tried manually seting the IFCONFIG_1 variable in the rc.config file but even after I do this and run SuSEconfig, I still don't get an active display with the utility IFCONFIG. Remember, all I'm trying to do is make the adapter come up and be displayed as up via IFCONFIG. The OS picks it up fine. Thanks in advance. Lester PS: I've taken earlier recommendations to use a card that SuSE Linux 6.0 will recognize off the back and remove any headaches. On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, hhv wrote:

zentara wrote:

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ljackson@techlinks.com wrote:

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Hello:

I'm trying to configure my second ethernet card via YAST by selecting the following:

System Administration|Network Configuration|Network Base Configuration

...however, the option "Network Base Configuration" isn't enabled? Why is this so? How can I accomplish using this configuration option. I simply want to activate another ethernet card and at the same time, assign an IP to it (192.168.1.1)

The card must be recognized at boot time before it can be configured in the network. If it's pnp, it must be setup with isapnp.conf. If it's PCI it's automatically found.

Then you must set the card up with options in /etc/conf.modules or build it into your kernel.

For eth0 you should have a couple of lines like: alias eth0 ne options ne irq=* i/o=*

You should have similar entries for eth1, alias eth1 ne2k-pci options ne2k-pci irq=* i/o=*

e.g. irq=5 io=0x300 (_without_ slash) or irq=5,7 io=0x300,0x320 (example from /etc/conf.modules)

Henning

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