Craig,
On my 7.0 I did not do anything special, installed smoothly. As a last
attempt try another Linksys card. Possible there might me problems specific
to ur particular card. It happens sometimes.
Cheers
Sridhar
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Some Tulip help, please
> Sridhar,
>
> My card is also Linksys 10/100tx, and I am beginning to think, although
> documentation would indicate otherwise, this is the LITE chip but on
> "http://www.scyld.comm" (this guy wrote the tulip driver) it says this
latest
> version will support both chips. Who knows? Tell me something please, did
your
> card go in during installation of 7.02 or did you set it up once the
install
> was done. If it work in 7.02 without major hassles, I will go back. I am
on
> 7.1, and it has been a real bitch setting this guy up. After better than
five
> years in "nix" systems, this has been a very humbling experience. Think
twice
> before you upgrade....
>
> Craig
>
> Sridhar G wrote:
>
> > Craig,
> >
> > What card are u using. Is it a tulip card based on Digital or LITE
chips? I
> > am using Linksys 10/100 MB card and it uses the Lite chip as Matt says.
> > I had trouble with the card in 6.0 aso I downloaded the tulip source
file
> > from Linksys and compiled as per the instructions and it worked.
> >
> > Now in using LM 7.0-2 and the tulip driver installed without a hitch.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Sridhar
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 4:41 PM
> > Subject: Re: [expert] Some Tulip help, please
> >
> > > Matt, The good news is that I have finally got the new tulip to
compile.
> > The
> > > bad news is still eth0 will not initialize, insmod still gives me a
> > device
> > > busy. This card is junk........Let me know how your install goes......
> > > Craig
> > >
> > > "Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" wrote:
> > >
> > > > You might try searching the tulip archives on the link that Peter
gave.
> > > > Which model of network card are you using.
> > > >
> > > > Also that website talks about needing more that just the .c file
(for
> > PCI
> > > > detection apparently). And there is a diagnostic program there as
well.
> > > >
> > > > This weekend I'll be loading a mdk7.1 with tulip drivers for my
Linksys
> > > > cards. I just found out (via that webpage) that the linksys boards
> > don't
> > > > use DEC Tulip chips; they have Lite-On PNIC chips which just happen
to
> > be
> > > > similar enough that the tulip.o driver only needed minor mods to
work.
> > > >
> > > > Matt
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > > Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 5:39 PM
> > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > Subject: Re: [expert] Some Tulip help, please
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Peter , Matt and Bob,
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for the help. I am using 7.1 Mandrake, and I have
> > > > > tried both the
> > > > > tulip.o that comes as part of the Mandrake install, and it
> > > > > did not work. So I
> > > > > thought I better try newer versions by getting new tulip and
> > > > > compiling. This
> > > > > new tulip will not compile, complains about not having some
> > > > > files. Another
> > > > > very helpful guy, Bob, even sent me his tulip.o. This tulip
> > > > > would not pass
> > > > > the depmod -a, complained about "Unresolved Symbol" in the
> > > > > tulip.o. I did have
> > > > > a irq conflict but resolved this by disabling usb in BIOS. It
> > > > > seems all
> > > > > setting are correct now but I am getting device busy with I
> > > > > try insmod tulip,
> > > > > and that is all the info I find in /var/log/messages. Any
> > > > > thoughts, gents.
> > > > > Again, thanks for all the help.
> > > > >
> > > > > Craig
> > > > >
> > > > > Peter Loron wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > No ideas on why it won't compile, never had any problems
> > > > > with my boxes.
> > > > > > The tulip page is here:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > -Pete
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.) wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Can't help you with the compile problem. My copy of
> > > > > mdk7.1 has the tulip
> > > > > > > driver in my lib/modules directory. What version of mdk
> > > > > are you running?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Matt
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > > > From: Craig Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > > > > > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 11:56 PM
> > > > > > > > To: Expert
> > > > > > > > Subject: [expert] Some Tulip help, please
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I can not get the tulip driver for an eth0 to compile.
> > > > > I am using the
> > > > > > > > argument: gcc -DMODULE -D_KERNEL_
> > > > > -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -Wall
> > > > > > > > -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c tulip.c '[ -f
> > > > > > > > /usr/include/linux//modversions.h ] && echo -DMODVERSIONS'
This
> > > > > > > > statement is entered on one line, and the output should
> > > > > give me a
> > > > > > > > tulip.o from a tulip.c. Am I right? Has anyone compliled
this
> > > > > > > > "bad_boy"?
> > > > > > > > Simpler yet, could someone please direct me to a
pre-compiled
> > > > > > > > version of
> > > > > > > > the tulip driver. It would make my life so much better.
> > > > > Thank you so
> > > > > > > > very much (whomever you might be).
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Craig
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
> > >
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