RE: HELP!!!

["Brett Singer" <brett@brettsinger.com>]

> Did you need to install any software on the Windows machine (other
> than the ethernet device driver)?  If not you're probably in luck and
> the protocol between your machine and the DSL box is "normal" IP
> stuff.  If you're connection from windows just involves setting TCP/IP
> on the card to use DHCP, this is good

no other software other than the driver - oh good, something that works :)

> The OS is not seeing your card, as a wild shot (not really knowing
> your card) try, as root:
>
> bash# insmod 3c59x
>
> this will (try) to load the driver for newer 3com PCI cards, if this
> fails, you can `cd` to /lib/modules/<kernel-version-number>/net
>
> an `ls` will show you the available drivers, yours will probably start
> with 3c although some 3com cards use a tulip chip set. Try `insmod
> <filename>` untill you don't get an error message :)

nothing that starts with a '3c' seems to work - i think i have the tulip
driver (3c90x), but it's on a windows machine, and when i try to move it to
the linux box via floppy the filename truncates.  what to do?

thanks,

-b


-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan D. Proulx [mailto:jon@ai.mit.edu]
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 6:39 PM
To: Brett Singer
Cc: Jonathan D. Proulx; urbanyon; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: HELP!!!


On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:24:40PM -0500, Brett Singer wrote:


:not sure i follow you - tell me if this helps to clarify the situation:
:
:on the windows machines i'm using, it was pretty much plug and go - once
the
:cards were installed, i plugged in the ethernet cable, got an 'automatic'
IP
:address, and that was it.  the router does the rest.  which, of course, is
:what's going to make the linux install more difficult ;-)

Did you need to install any software on the Windows machine (other
than the ethernet device driver)?  If not you're probably in luck and
the protocol between your machine and the DSL box is "normal" IP
stuff.  If you're connection from windows just involves setting TCP/IP
on the card to use DHCP, this is good


:tried this:
:
:> bash$ /sbin/ifconfig -a
:
:which got me:
:
:lo	Link encap:Local loopback
:	  <bunch of stuff>

The OS is not seeing your card, as a wild shot (not really knowing
your card) try, as root:

bash# insmod 3c59x

this will (try) to load the driver for newer 3com PCI cards, if this
fails, you can `cd` to /lib/modules/<kernel-version-number>/net

an `ls` will show you the available drivers, yours will probably start
with 3c although some 3com cards use a tulip chip set. Try `insmod
<filename>` untill you don't get an error message :)

-Jon