Re: Ethernet Card


Subject: Re: Ethernet Card
craig@cy55033-a.rdondo1.ca.home.com
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 13:12:03 MDT


I have one of those cards, too. It uses the tulip.o driver.
I think it comes with the kernel you have. In either case, you
will need to build a new kernel with the tulip support (as module or
compiled in) if
"modprobe tulip" doesn't work.

Good luck,
Craig Radnovich

>
> I am having a problem configuring one of my ethernet cards. I have two
> cards on my beige g3 desktop. One is the built in 10MBps card and I have a
> 100baseT card that I installed. The built in works fine but I want to
> switch all network activity over to the 100bT card and not even worry right
> now about using the 10bT card. I have added a couple lines in the
> conf.modules file to point the kernel to the driver for the card when it
> boots but when I do a modprobe eth1 it fails consistently.
>
> The card I am using is a Farallon FastEtherTX-10/100. I am honestly not
> sure which driver I should be using so I have been trying all the drivers
> located in the /lib/modules/2.2.15-2.9.0/net directory (i.e lance.o,
> pcnet32.o). The lance.o causes a kernel panic while all the others just
> fail the modprobe.
>
> Anyone know which driver I should be using? Where I can find it if I it
> doesn't come with the base install of YDL?
>
> Also, the system does recognize the card. When I boot linux I get a message
> somewhat like this:
>
> eth1: DC21143 at 0x0400 ... hardware address: ... and requires IRQ23 ... at
> PCI BIOS.
>
> I found something in the Ethernet HOWTO about turning off the PnP (?) bios.
> This seemed to be only for Windows though, so if I have to turn it off how
> can I do that?
>
> Thanks!
>



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