Getting a PNP Network card to work in RH 5.1?!?!?

Is this isa or pci card

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Try booting with param: eth0 i=11 a=240
Should force the netcard!

Since I am fairly new to Linux please explain where to do this.I have gone into the X Control Panel and tried this already to no avail. Please explain.

I have tried forcing the NIC as proposed to no avail. I even disabled the PNP part of the NIC (Thru a dos DLINK utility) and forced it to IRQ 12 (Since Winbloze had something else assigned to 11 after disabling PNP) and I/O as 240 and still no luck. I keep reformatting my installation of Linux to see if the installation will see the NIC card or not and it hasn't.

Boot the machine, wait for the "lilo:" prompt, and try entering:

linux ether=12,0x240,eth0

You have to enter this exactly as typed, with no spaces except for the one between "linux" and "ether" and you have to type fairly quickly or it will proceed before you want it to. If this works, edit your /etc/lilo.conf and add:

append="ether=11,0x240,eth0"    (or whatever command worked)

Then run /sbin/lilo. This will make the command run even if you don't type anything at the boot prompt.

Another way of doing the same thing, if the driver is a module, is to edit /etc/conf.modules and add:

alias eth0 ne    (or whichever module your card uses)
options ne io=0x240 irq=12

-Graham