Re: Network card driver
Nathan,
By this and an earlier message, it seems that you are stating that one must
install the potato release before installing the tulip driver?
I am attempting to install my first Debian system and cannot `insmod tulip`.
When I do, I get a message stating that the device or resource is busy.
`dmesg` has the following info. "Unknown Tulip-style PCI Ethernet chip type
11ad c115 detected: not configured."
I have a Linksys Fast Ethernet 10/100 PCI card.
Does this indicate that my slink release cannot handle the card?
Thanks,
-Lane
----- Original Message -----
From: Nathan E Norman <nnorman@midco.net>
To: Timothy C. Phan <tphan@iqrinc.com>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: Network card driver
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 03:15:39PM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote:
: Hi Nathan,
:
: Thank you very much. So, all I need to do after a fresh
: potato installation, do a modprobe tulip and that is it?
: Would this install the drive?
... or just choose "tulip" during the "Configure Modules" section
of the install. The driver is in section net.
: How about configure it to a certain IP, submask, gateway,
: DNS servers?
Reading ahead I guess you're using the Netgear as your second card
(are you using two of them?) Simply configure each interface in
"/etc/init.d/network". I'll attach mine from my masq box.
: I'm plan to do IP MASQ on this potota box. What do I need
: to do in term of rebuilding kernel, addition packages to
: install, addition configuration to the network drive, etc.?
You must include Masq support, and Optimise as router not host
... I'll just attach my config too. My Masq box is a 486 so adjust
for your processor as appropriate ... any questions just ask.
Please note that the attached config DOESN'T include support for
tulip cards; I recommend `make menuconfig' to fix this and other
tweaks as needed.
: Nathan, you have been quite helpful to this user group and
: me. I sincerely thank you.!
Oh, I'm just trying to be as helpful as the deranged souls who
got me going on this stuff a few years ago :) Thanks for the
kind words.
: BTW, I tried to mirror of your midco site as suggested by
: you last time, I still have the timeout problem which I
: could not figure it out. This happened with ftp.debian.org
: ftp.us.debian.org and a few other sites. That was why I used
: crosslink.net and I think these few days crosslink.net gave me
: the same problem as other sites.
If you continue to get timeouts try tracerouting to the site you're
mirroring from ("/usr/sbin/traceroute")
: Best regard!
Same to you! Good luck,
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