Subject: Re: Ethernet Card
From: Derek (derek@digitalgear.com)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 13:23:04 MDT
on 8/31/00 12:12 PM, craig@cy55033-a.rdondo1.ca.home.com at
craig@cy55033-a.rdondo1.ca.home.com wrote:
>
> 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!
>>
>
Thanks Craig!
I just checked and I do not have the tulip module. Do you know where I can
find it? Or at least a good place to start?
By the way, once I do find it how do I install it properly? I am sort of
new at linux but I am trying to learn fast.
Thanks for the info!
Derek
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