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Confused about Cable modem/ NIC setup



Hi all:

I had problems with the dhcp client that comes with slink, so I
installed the version that's in potato. It installed okay, but it
prompted me for a network device from a list that it apparently found.
Unfortunately, it found none.

I have a Linksys card and I've been to their site and followed
instructions on making the latest version of their tulip driver
available when I compile the kernel. 

I compiled my kernel, and I get this message about my nic when I
rebooted:

  tulip.c:v0.90 10/20/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
  eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0xe800, 00 a0 cc 22 71 e4, IRQ 12.
  eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7829 advertising 01e1.

Is this right? Is my card being recognized? It looks similar to the
example in the Cable-Modem-mini-HOWTO.

However, ifconfig doesn't show eth0, I just get lo and ppp0 (right now).

The linksys site mentions to do a cat /proc/pci, so I did and it looks
like:

  PCI devices found:
    Bus  0, device   9, function  0:
      Ethernet controller: Lite-on LNE100TX (rev 32).
        Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 12.  Master
Capable.  Latency=64.  
        I/O at 0xe800.
        Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea000000.

for my NIC.

The Linksys website mentions that if the output of the cat /proc/pci
looks like this:

  Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
        Ethernet controller: Lite-on LNE100TX (rev 32).
          Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. 
          Master Capable. No bursts. I/O at 0x0.

then my BIOS is configured wrong.

Can anyone help me/point me in the right direction? I've read the
Cable-Modem-mini-HOWTO, the Ethernet-HOWTO, and a couple other docs
written by people at my local LUG, but they use redhat and do everything
from the control panel and network configuration tools that redhat has.

TIA
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