Network card problems (was Re: Distributions (Debian))

[Matthew Austin]

Debian 2.2.18pre21, i386
System board:  Gigabyte GA-7IX

I have a Linksys (LNE100TX) card, which is a PCI card.  It should use tulip.o, but when I try to 
install this module I get a "device or resource busy error".  Looking at proc/pci, I see the card 
is detected but it never gets configured as eth0.  When searching the archives of 
linux.debian.user, I have found several ideas that either didn't work or I don't understand.  

The card came with source code for the drivers,  tulip.c and pciscan.c, along with other necessary 
files.  I haved tried use these, but I think I have to edit the makefile that comes with the 
drivers because it is looking for some .h files that it cannot find.

I saw one note that said you could move tulip.c and pciscan.c into the directory where the network 
modules are located and recompile the kernel using the newly created tulip.o and pci-scan.o.  I 
haven't tried this yet.

--Matt

Reply to:  

What network card problems do you have?  Is your NIC an ISA card?  If so
then I recommend some boot-time parameters to lilo.  PCI cards are
recognized and configured much more easily.  Does rr use a dhcp server?  
In this case you need debian's dhcp-client package.  

dmesg |grep eth0  will tell you what the kernel did with your eth0
interface at boot-up, if anything.  
 

Regards,

-Don
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