I’ve recently acquired an old PC which I thought would be good
\nto have around the house as a simple internet browser and chat client.
\nI also thought it would be good to install Gentoo Linux on it, which I
\ncurrently run on my laptop. (Yes, I’m going to be a bastard and force
\nmy poor family members to use Linux)…. Well, as it turns out, the
\nethernet adapter installed on this PC is an ISA Intel Ether Express
\nPro. Because of this <sarcasm>
\nwonderful<\/i> <\/sarcasm> setup, I’ve spent
\nthe last couple days trying to figure out what’s wrong with the PC, and
\nwhy I could not get it on the network. Finally, I found some decent
\ninformation:
\nhttp:\/\/www.scrounge.org\/linux\/nics.htm
\nFrom there, I was able to find the driver software on the net,
\nE10DISK.EXE. This contained the required program, SOFTSET2.EXE. But to
\nrun this, of course, I needed DOS. …but… I just installed Linux!
\nOi… I discovered that E10DISK.EXE was just a self-extracting file,
\nand ran it on my windows PC. Then I copied 2 files, SOFTSET2.EXE and
\nISS2.EXE to a floppy. I had to boot my new (old) PC into MS-DOS and run
\nthe setup program to disable PNP on the ISA card. I was able to do this
\nusing my old Win98 startup disk, and then swapping disks. After
\nchanging a couple more settings in the BIOS and adding parameters to
\nthe modprobe, everything WORKED!
\nAnd now the PC is syncing with the portage database. Isn’t life grand?
\n\ud83d\ude42
\nSo, the moral of the story is: keep those old MS-DOS startup disks!
\nThat’s not the first time they’ve saved my ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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