Re: 2 linksys NICs

[David Bellows <bfootdav@mindspring.com>]

"Michael P. Soulier" wrote:
> 
>     Hi guys. I just put 2 Linksys NICs in a Slink box that I'm going to
> upgrade if I can get them working. It's going to be my gateway. Now, the docs
> say to use the tulip driver, but I just get a "device or resource busy" error
> from that indicating it's the wrong driver. So, I tried a modprobe -t on the
> entire net directory, and finally the 82596 driver found eth0.
>     Now, I'm not sure if that's right, or if I should grab the latest tulip
> source and recompile. Regardless, how do I get eth1 recognized? I have two
> cards, identical, but the driver stopped after finding just eth0.
> 
>     I'm using Linsys LNE100TX cards.
> 
Hello,

I have the same card.  The tulip drivers that come with kernel don't
work for me either and I tried several different kernel versions.  My
Linksys actually came with a Linux driver floppy.  The driver was called
tulip.  I compiled this driver and it works.  It is disappointing that
the standard tulip driver from the kernel doesn't work on this tulip
card (no fault of the kernel, the card maker probably screwed up).  If
your card didn't come with the driver on a floppy then you can find the
source at Linksys' site and compile it yourself (easy compile, obviously
need kernel sources, etc.).  I'm not sure what to do about the second
card, however the Linksys driver also comes with a pciscan module that
might solve the problem.

David Bellows