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Help set up Linksys LNE100TX on Debian 2.2 ?



I'm trying to get a Linksys LNE 100TX PCI NIC recognized on Debian 2.2.17 on a 120 mhz Triton motherboard. I see that there were a number of recent posts on debian-users about this card, but none quite address my specific problem.

insmod tulip

comes back with 'Device or resource busy' and a suggestion that an incorrect param such as the interrupt might be the problem. The docs that came with the card indicate that it uses the tulip driver - but docs from different sources are in conflict as to whether or not this driver actually takes any parameters. Empirically, if I give it any it complains.

A note on the drivers (on the scyld site?) suggested that sometimes PnP OS needed to be turned off in the bios set up - my bios does not have that option (unless it's under some other name), but indicated that IRQ's 10, 11, 9, and 12 would be available in that order. I booted with a dos floppy and ran the diag.exe that came with the card and it checked out fine, using IRQ 10. I had no reason to imagine that the particular slot the card was in would make a difference, but I tried all 3 anyway and got the same results.

There are no other cards in the machine except an isa vga card.

modconf gives the same results as insmod. The docs for linux that came with the card (also a doc on the linksys site) gave steps for downloading the source for the driver and compiling. Again, the docs on the linksys site, those of the linksys floppy, and those on the scyld site are not in sync with each other - the linksys site indicates that tulip.c is on the floppy, the floppy indicates that it's at the old nasa site, which of course redirects you to scyld.

This system is only partially set up (as far as the boot disks would take me, no network connectivity yet and I can't get the floppy to work either) so I've just tried to use the tulip.o that was already there. If I do need to compile a new driver then I'd appreciate someone walking me through connecting to the floppy - 'mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy' (linksys knowledgebase) did not work.

I'm new enough at this that I'm not sure what to try next. Any help would be appreciated.

I confess also that I'm feeling a bit frustrated - I'd like to educate myself but 98% the linux documentation I find either assumes you already know the inner workings of linux, or else that your redhat/corel/whatever supergui install worked flawlessly and you don't want to and will never need to know any more than the typical windows user does. The only thing I've found so far at close to the right level is the appendix on 'Principal Linux files' in 'Learning Debian GNU/Linux'.

A book that gave an overview of the structure of Linux, how the difference parts interact with each other, what processes happen, in what order, relationship and with what dependencies when the system boots - that would be at the about right - not 'now select your network card from the list and press the enter key' or 'download the source, edit and recompile the kernel'.

Any suggestions on reading material also much appreciated.

TIA



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