Re: Motorola Starmax 3000/180, RTL 8139/8029, and a /big/ quandary

2000-09-26 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > I was thinking along the lines of a patch to drivers/net/Config.in to say > > "PCI NE2000 and clones (see help)" and then put the list of clones in the > > appropriate section of Documentation/Configure.help. > > Also,

Re: Motorola Starmax 3000/180, RTL 8139/8029, and a /big/ quandary

2000-09-25 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > Patches are attached vs. 2.2.17 and 2.4.0-test8. If they seem good (i.e. > > if > nobody says they're bad :-), I'll forward them. > > [...] > > > -CONFIG_UNIX=y > > +CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=m > > +CONFIG_FIREWALL=y > > +CONFIG_FILTER=y > > +CONFIG_

Re: Motorola Starmax 3000/180, RTL 8139/8029, and a /big/ quandary

2000-09-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Patches are attached vs. 2.2.17 and 2.4.0-test8. If they seem good (i.e. if > > nobody says they're bad :-), I'll forward them. [...] > -CONFIG_UNIX=y > +CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=m > +CONFIG_FIREWALL=y > +CONFIG_FILTER=y > +CONFIG_UNIX=m I remember that back when I started

Re: Motorola Starmax 3000/180, RTL 8139/8029, and a /big/ quandary

2000-09-25 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Adam C Powell IV wrote: > I was thinking along the lines of a patch to drivers/net/Config.in to say > "PCI NE2000 and clones (see help)" and then put the list of clones in the > appropriate section of Documentation/Configure.help. > Also, in the rtl8139 section, it says something like "NOT 8029!

Re: Motorola Starmax 3000/180, RTL 8139/8029, and a /big/ quandary

2000-09-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > The RTL8029 is a PCI NE2000 clone. `modprobe ne2k-pci' should work. > > > > Hooray, it worked!! Thank you very much! I'm getting solid 650 MB/s > > through it, which may be limited by my

Re: Motorola Starmax 3000/180, RTL 8139/8029, and a /big/ quandary

2000-09-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > The RTL8029 is a PCI NE2000 clone. `modprobe ne2k-pci' should work. > > Hooray, it worked!! Thank you very much! I'm getting solid 650 MB/s through > it, which may be limited by my hub; but that's a good bit more than

Re: Motorola Starmax 3000/180, RTL 8139/8029, and a /big/ quandary

2000-09-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > The RTL8029 is a PCI NE2000 clone. `modprobe ne2k-pci' should work. Hooray, it worked!! Thank you very much! I'm getting solid 650 MB/s through it, which may be limited by my hub; but that's a good bit more than the cable modem will give me so it's all I need. Thi

Re: Motorola Starmax 3000/180, RTL 8139/8029, and a /big/ quandary

2000-09-14 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Kurt Raschke wrote: > > Also, is there any kind of "extended drivers disk" that might have an > > rtl8139 driver, or an rtl8029 driver? Are there any other drivers that I > > could get to work with either of these cards? > > An open question to the

Re: Motorola Starmax 3000/180, RTL 8139/8029, and a /big/ quandary

2000-09-13 Thread Chris Baker
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kurt Raschke wrote: > > > > So, what's involved in doing the null modem PPP install? I've already got a > > cable that I can use to connect my i386 box and my Starmax, but I don't know > > how to set up a PPP server, nor do I know how to get the instal

Re: Motorola Starmax 3000/180, RTL 8139/8029, and a /big/ quandary

2000-09-13 Thread Michel Dänzer
Kurt Raschke wrote: > I think I understand how to set up the server on my i386 box. However, what > do I do on my PPC box? When I boot into Linux, I get the post-install > program that asks you how you plan to install the rest of the system. I'm > assuming that if I select PPP, I'll get a confi

Re: Motorola Starmax 3000/180, RTL 8139/8029, and a /big/ quandary

2000-09-13 Thread Kurt Raschke
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:47:48AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Kurt Raschke wrote: > > > > So, what's involved in doing the null modem PPP install? I've already got a > > cable that I can use to connect my i386 box and my Starmax, but I don't know > > how to set up a PPP server, nor do I know h

Re: Motorola Starmax 3000/180, RTL 8139/8029, and a /big/ quandary

2000-09-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Kurt Raschke wrote: > Well, I've looked at what cross compiling involves, and I think I'll hold on > that until I've got a working system. So, what's involved in doing the null > modem PPP install? I've already got a cable that I can use to connect my > i386 box and my Starmax, but I don't kn

Re: Motorola Starmax 3000/180, RTL 8139/8029, and a /big/ quandary

2000-09-13 Thread Michel Dänzer
Kurt Raschke wrote: > > So, what's involved in doing the null modem PPP install? I've already got a > cable that I can use to connect my i386 box and my Starmax, but I don't know > how to set up a PPP server, nor do I know how to get the installation > program to use a null-modem connection. Not

Re: Motorola Starmax 3000/180, RTL 8139/8029, and a /big/ quandary

2000-09-12 Thread Kurt Raschke
Well, I've looked at what cross compiling involves, and I think I'll hold on that until I've got a working system. So, what's involved in doing the null modem PPP install? I've already got a cable that I can use to connect my i386 box and my Starmax, but I don't know how to set up a PPP server

Motorola Starmax 3000/180, RTL 8139/8029, and a /big/ quandary

2000-09-11 Thread Kurt Raschke
Dear debian users: I've been struggling with debian-powerpc for a couple of days, and I've running into a number of bugs. I don't have a debian cd, or a cd-burner, so I'm doing a network install. So, I downloaded the files prescribed by the installation docs, and got a base install going. I'v