Redhat Not Recognizing NIC anymore..

[RenegadeKing]

This has been very very very frusturating for me for the past 2 days. Before the summer I had tried to set up a game server on a RedHat 6.0 linux box. The computer is pretty old and the game server never ran right. I eventually gave up on it. A few days ago I decided to run a PPTP server on it. Pretty confident that it could handle it, I set out to install RH 6 on it again because I had since installed Win98 on it. This time, during the installation it didn't recognize the NIC. When I had previously installed it it had found and installed the drivers for the NIC on its own. Oh well, it still gave me a list to choose from. I found out the correct driver for the card and chose it, but it told me it couldn't find the card! After this I must have tried reinstalling linux about 20 times so far, and have tried to manually install and configure the driver many times. I even tried two other network cards, and tried them in different PCI slots and disabled all the onboard stuff in the BIOS. For one of them (a 10baseT 3com) I was able to choose it from the list and it didn't complain, but it turned out I couldn't get it working. I know that the card that was originally in it works because I installed Win95 and got it working.

Nothing I do seems to make it work, and I have no idea why, because it DID work a few months ago. Very frusturating and I've thus far wasted about 24 hours on this.. If anyone has ANY ideas, please help me out. Thanx!

RenegadeKing

[abomb7682]

have you tried a more updated version of linux?

[RenegadeKing]

It works with 7.3, but I'd rather not use 7.3 on such an old machine. I think I'll be setting it up on another computer now, so I'll probably be selling parts from this computer.