Scott,
If it's the $19.95 Linksys, Line..something, forget it, it will never work,
get a 3com instead. Look at the bottom of the RH NIC compatibility page, it
is one of maybe three NICs that are utterly incompatible, even though the
Linksys website says otherwise.
Frank Reichenbacher
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Alan Bowling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: Coinfiguring PCI NIC
> I've got the drivers now but when I insmod the pci-scan and tulip drivers,
I get
> a bunch of unresolved symbol messages for each one. Any ideas? I will
post
> some of the messages if you need them. I also downloaded the network
> diagnostic tools and it DID recognize the card, yet I don't know what all
I can
> do with the tools and information....any ideas.
>
> Thank you guys soooo much for your help!
>
> Scott Bowling
>
> Charles Galpin wrote:
>
> > Hi Scott
> >
> > On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > I'm fairly new to the Linux world, so please bare with me here. I've
> > > got RH 6.2 and I'm trying to setup a NIC that isn't being recognized
> > > by Linux. It's a Linksys EtherFast NIC. According to Lynksys and
> > > Support Red Hat pages, I should be using the tulip driver with the
> > > card, no luck. I can get the Interrupt and IO address from /proc/pci,
> > > can I use this information to configure the driver in netconf? The
> > > IRQ is 9 and the IO says : 0xfc00 [0xfc01] (from /proc/pci). When
> > > inputing these factors into netconf and using the tulip driver
> > > (manually entering IP information also), the card still won't work.
> > > Doing a tail -f /var/logs/messages gives me an invalid parm_io message
> > > when trying to 'ifup eth0'. Any and all help will be appreciated.
> >
> > The newer Linksys EtherFast NICs need the latest tulip drivers. Go to
> > http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html to get the latest ones. You can
> > get just the tulip module, or (probably easier for you) a package of all
> > drivers. Read carefully and you will find it is all explained quite
well.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > PS- Is there a location for me to search the mailing list archives?
I had
> > > to go a round about way to find out if this mailing lists exists!
> >
> > Yes! go to http://moongroup.com/redhat.phtml for searchable archives.
Try
> > not spend too much time wondering why Red Hat doesn't provide this
service
> > themselves, and save the energy thinking good thoughts about Chuck Mead
> > (another stand up guy like Donald Becker of scyld computing).
> >
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