Re: Problems with tulip driver
Peter,
Thanks for the info. I find it sort of astonishing that there
are problems with the tulip driver. This has to be probably the
most commonly used driver other than the ne2k. I've been using
these NetGear cards in most of my boxes for about three years and
never had *any* problems with any previous kernel. The box I did
this install on was running 2.2.14 previously, and the card never
complained.
Anyway, I unpacked the kernel source and did a "make xconfig"
and I find that, interestingly, the FA-310TX card has its own
button on the network drivers menu. I decided to compile it
right into the kernel rather than as a module. The only problem
now is that make is complaining that it can't find as86, even
though I selected the development packages when I did the
install. Looking through the stuff on the CD that I downloaded
and burned, I can't figure out which .deb package contains the
assembler. Do you happen to know? Can I just do an "apt-get
install as86" and expect it to work?
I have to say that, overall, I've been thoroughly unimpressed
by the Debian distro. I was told that the installation would be
tough, but I *never* anticipated the two-day nightmare that this
has become.
Thanks for your help, regardless.
best,
Jim Wiggs
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> james, the tulip driver is problematic.
>
> we've had cards at our installfests that required the tulip.c driver from
> the 2.4.* kernels.
>
> can you ping the card's IP?
> what does /var/log/messages say?
>
> why don't you recompile the kernel and turn off Lite-On 82c168 PNIC.
> compile it as a module or something. that will stop the kernel from trying
> to configure the card at boot.
>
> pete
>
> On Sun 25 Feb 01, 2:33 PM, James K. Wiggs said:
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > I'm finding it impossible to get networking functional on the
> > box I've just installed 2.2r2 on. This is not an exotic setup, and
> > I've successfully installed several other distros on it at one time
> > or another, but the Debian install has been a complete wash.
> >
> > Why does my NetGear FA-310TX refuse to work with this kernel?
> > I searched the archives of the mailing lists exhaustively, and I've
> > found no mention of this problem, but it clearly is not working on
> > my box.
> >
> > I've got an AMD K6-2 350 on an FIC board; the only cards in the
> > machine are a BT-950 SCSI card, the NetGear card, and an older SB
> > AWE32 card. The master disk on the primary controller is an ACER
> > 50X CD, and the master disk on the secondary controller is a CD-RW
> > drive, a Matsushita 8x4x32. The box works perfectly with RedHat
> > 6.0 and 6.2, and with Mandrake 7.0. The hard disk is an IBM 4.3
> > GB FW-SCSI.
> >
> > The boot logs show that the kernel identifies the card as a
> > "Lite-On 82c168 PNIC" (???), and the interface gets configured
> > with the proper IP, netmask, etc, but any attempts to send any
> > data out over the wire fail.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > best,
> > Jim Wiggs
> >
> >
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