Subject: Re: 2nd ethernet card for B&W G3
From: cdowns (cdowns@skillsoft.com)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 08:40:45 MDT
rgp systems wrote:
> Anyone had luck with a 2nd NIC on a B&W G3? I briefly tried a Netgear
> FA310TX with the tulip module and got a kernel panic. I recently bought a
> Linksys LNE100TX tried it with tulip module but got 'device or resource
> busy' when trying to load module.
>
> So, I recompiled the kernel with tulip built-in (2.2.17pre16) but it's still
> not seeing the card (ifconfig -a should show all available
> interfaces...right?). In X I can use the KDE command center (or whatever
> it's called) and look under PCI and it sees an unidentified ethernet
> controller in the slot.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> --
> Randy Perry
> rgp systems
>
> Mac Consulting/Sales
i should of stated the real problem :) is that the 0.91 tulip module does not
work with some of the new chipsets, so you have to load the 0.92 tulip module
to make it work correctly.
good luck,
Christopher M Downs
cdowns@skillsoft.com
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