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

[Gene Dascher]

Try looking here:
http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html

This is a GREAT resource for network card drivers, diagnostics, and setup
programs.

Gene

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Austin [mailto:maustin5 at kc.rr.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 9:47 AM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Network card problems (was Re: Distributions (Debian))

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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