Subject: Re: Asante Not-so-Friendlynet 10/100 Ethernet card
From: herb (herb@kinetekpharm.com)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 02:38:25 MST
Thanx again Ed, I'll go try out a newer tulip driver. The one at Asante
support for linux is a 98 version.
At 05:40 PM 2/25/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Kernel panic - yuck. I haven't dealt much with these...
>
>-Did you get any errors when making the kernel?
>-What version is the tulip driver?
>
>If you do
>
>grep becker /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/tulip.c
>
>you should get this line
>
>static const char version[] = "tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99
>becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov\n";
>
>Is that what you get????
>
>herb wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > It's me again, with the same newbie problem. I d/l the new tulip.c
> > driver from the asante support sight for the 590 card. I then put it in the
> > directory /usr/src/linux/drivers/net and followed Ed Jaeger's commands:
> > (Thanx Ed)
> >
> > # cd /usr/src/linux
> > # make menuconfig
> > # make dep clean vmlinux modules modules_install
> > # cp vmlinux /boot/vmlinux-2.2.6
> > # cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.2.6
> > # cp vmlinux /mnt/macvol/System\ Folder/Linux\ Kernels/vmlinux-2.2.6
> > # (assuming you use BootX) <-- I put it on floppy and put
> > it in MacOS Systems folder.
> > # cd /boot
> > # rm vmlinux
> > # rm System.map
> > # ln -s vmlinux-2.2.6 vmlinux
> > # ln -s System.map-2.2.6 System.map
> >
> > I get a kernel panic and reboot after 180 seconds. (A linux "BSOD") hmm..
> > It comes right away if I put the new kernel in the MacOS System Folder. If
> > I use my old kernel in MacOS, it will get to the "Starting NFS Daemon" and
> > then spit out a whole lot of numbers and then the kernel panic occurs. Any
> > ideas?
> >
> > BTW, what type of PCI cards will be autodetected by YDL? Any brand/model? I
> > may just get a card. I've compiled the kernel a number of time already.
> Sigh. =P
>
>--
>Ed Jaeger, CFO, Bohlender Graebener Corporation
>ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com
>http://www.bgcorp.com
>---
>"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."
>
> -- Henry Ford
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