Re: Ethernet Card


Subject: Re: Ethernet Card
From: Stefan Jeglinski (jeglin@4pi.com)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 19:25:45 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.

> > 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 also have one of these cards, just installed today in a
PowerTowerPro with a G3 upgrade. Works fine with the de4x5 driver. No
tulip needed AFAICT

Stefan Jeglinski



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