Re: Help!!! Ethernet card hell!
natsemi is included in kernel 2.4.x. If you can upgrade to that, that would be best.
You can download the driver for kernel 2.2.x from
www.scyld.com/network/ethecard.html
read www.scyld.com/network/updates.html for compiling/installation instructions.
good luck
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:42:19AM -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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