Re: Help!!! Ethernet card hell!
I don't know what could be wrong with your ethernet card, but it can't
be Debian's fault, coz the network driver modules are part of the linux
kernel. Perhaps you should just compile your own kernel.
It could just be a loose cable or something :)
I know that the natsemi.o module exists in the current kernel version
2.4.5 (and probably in many other versions before that). You need
CONFIG_NATSEMI=m in your kernel config.
Cheers,
Aq.
On 23 Jun 2001 11:42:19 -0400, Aaron Traas wrote:
> Overall, I love Debian as an OS. I've used it many times in a work
> environment, and apt-get simply rules. However, I have yet to
> successfully install Debian on one of my home machines. Here is the
> situation:
>
> I have 5 different ethernet cards without a permanent home: 4 different
> Tulip variants, and a Netgear FA311. I'm trying to get these to work on
> Debian 2.2r2. I am unable to get 2.2r3 because A) my CDRW on my Windoze
> box just died, and B) I can't get this machine to work with any ethernet
> card I have, so installing over the network is not an option.
>
> I've tried absolutely everything on the Tulip variants... all versions
> of the driver included (ng_tulip, old_tulip, tulip) in various ways.
> Most recently, I got one of the variants of the tulip to work by
> installing a clean system, and entering the following commands:
>
> insmod tulip
> ifconfig eth0 inet 10.1.1.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.1.1.255
> ifconfig eth0 up
> ping 10.1.1.1
>
> And everything worked fine! It was great! So I decided to re-install the
> system, and configure everything I wanted. I selected the tulip driver,
> and it loaded. I entered the same information above, along with a
> default gateway and DNS server address. The install finished, and I
> tried to ping the same address. It timed out.
>
> I tried various things, including rmmoding the driver, and insmoding it,
> and redoing everything with ifconfig, but nothing works.
>
> I'd like to know what is going on here. I know for the fact the card was
> working just a few minutes ago. I also know that all of the cards I have
> work well under both Red Hat and Mandrake, which I used prior to Debian
> and got sick of.
>
> Also, what driver am I supposed to use for the Netgear FA311? In other
> distros, it uses natsemi.o, which is not present in Debian 2.2r2.
>
> Can someone tell me what is going on? Debian is an incredibly robust OS,
> but if it can't work with the same ethernet cards that other distros use
> with ease, I'm going to have to switch back. I have 4 machines I want to
> install Debian on, all of which are currently running Mandrake and have
> Tulip cards in them (one of them has 4 such cards and is being used as a
> router), and I can't afford to just buy 7 new NICs.
>
> Does anyone have a solution for me?
>
>
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