On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: >james, the tulip driver is problematic. > >we've had cards at our installfests that required the tulip.c driver from >the 2.4.* kernels.
Also look at Donald Becker's company's site (Becker wrote most of the linux networking software) http://www.scyld.com/network/ >can you ping the card's IP? >what does /var/log/messages say? > >why don't you recompile the kernel and turn off Lite-On 82c168 PNIC. >compile it as a module or something. that will stop the kernel from trying >to configure the card at boot. > >pete > >On Sun 25 Feb 01, 2:33 PM, James K. Wiggs said: >> >> Folks, >> >> I'm finding it impossible to get networking functional on the >> box I've just installed 2.2r2 on. This is not an exotic setup, and >> I've successfully installed several other distros on it at one time >> or another, but the Debian install has been a complete wash. >> >> Why does my NetGear FA-310TX refuse to work with this kernel? >> I searched the archives of the mailing lists exhaustively, and I've >> found no mention of this problem, but it clearly is not working on >> my box. >> >> I've got an AMD K6-2 350 on an FIC board; the only cards in the >> machine are a BT-950 SCSI card, the NetGear card, and an older SB >> AWE32 card. The master disk on the primary controller is an ACER >> 50X CD, and the master disk on the secondary controller is a CD-RW >> drive, a Matsushita 8x4x32. The box works perfectly with RedHat >> 6.0 and 6.2, and with Mandrake 7.0. The hard disk is an IBM 4.3 >> GB FW-SCSI. >> >> The boot logs show that the kernel identifies the card as a >> "Lite-On 82c168 PNIC" (???), and the interface gets configured >> with the proper IP, netmask, etc, but any attempts to send any >> data out over the wire fail. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> best, >> Jim Wiggs >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > -- I can be immature if I want to, because I'm mature enough to make my own decisions. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
