On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 12:51:20AM -0400, dman wrote: > tulip driver ... I've heard stories from some people that older tulip > drivers don't work with certain newer cards. What NIC are you using? > Personally I've never had any problems with the tulip driver starting > with version 0.90 and a Linksys LNE100TX rev2.0.
That's my card, too. I also used a NetGear card, with the same sad results. Both are newish, AFAIK... only a year or two old. > | It tells me that ICMP is an "unknown protocol." That'd probably > | explain the lack of ping, but not the lack of TCP. > > Actually, TCP uses ICMP respones for things such as "Destination > unreachable". If you can't get ICMP packets in then you will never > get any TCP error messages, just timeouts. Huh. I've always meant to learn more low-level TCP. Thanks for the tip. > Do you have the installation stuff on the NFS export? It may be > easier to download rescue and root floppies from the potato installers > and do a network install. You'd be using a 2.2 kernel then. I considered doing that, but thought that fighting with floppies a second time would be more trouble than it was worth. That was many hours ago... I'll give it a go with potato. (Oooh. That rhymes.) Thanks -- Bob Galloway You're so meta.
